The Drowned and the Saved (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Primo Levi
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Essay/History
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, History
- Subjects: World War II, Anti-Semitism, Death or dying, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Horror, Concentration camps, Tattoos, Genocide
- Locales: Italy, Poland
A chemist by profession and a writer by compulsion, Levi, an Italian Jew forced to become Prisoner 174517 in a Nazi death camp, refused afterward to have his tattoo erased; for forty years, he wore the victim’s stigma with neither shame nor pride, but rather a duty to bear witness. Earlier books by Levi, including SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ and THE REAWAKENING, are important contributions to the many detailed accounts of the Holocaust. While offering incidental information on daily life in Auschwitz, however, THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED is most concerned with contemplating how a culture as...
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