The Drowned and the Saved

The Drowned and the Saved (I sommersi e i salvati) is a book of essays by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi on life and death in the Nazi extermination camps, 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, in contrast to his earlier books If This Is a Man (1947) and The Truce (1963), which are autobiographical.

Contents

 * Preface


 * 1) The Memory of the Offense
 * 2) The Gray Zone
 * 3) Shame
 * 4) Communicating
 * 5) Useless Violence
 * 6) The Intellectual in Auschwitz
 * 7) Stereotypes
 * 8) Letters from Germans
 * Conclusion

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.