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Original title I sommersi e i salvati Published in English 1988 Published in english 1988 | 4.4/5 Goodreads Country Italy Publication date 1986 Originally published April 1986 Page count 170 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Drowned and the Saved (Italian: I sommersi e i salvati) is a book of essays on life in the Nazi extermination camps by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, drawing on his personal experience as a survivor of Auschwitz (Monowitz). The author's last work, written in 1986, a year before his death, The Drowned and the Saved is an attempt at an analytical approach, whereas If This Is a Man (1947) and The Truce (1963) were autobiographical.
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The drowned and the saved
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Miscellaneous
The title of one essay (The Grey Zone) was used as title for the film The Grey Zone (2001), which is based on a book by Miklós Nyiszli.
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The Drowned and the Saved Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA