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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: drowned and the saved
  title info:
    title: Sommersi e i salvati. English
  name:
    name part: Levi, Primo
    name part: 1919-1987
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rosenthal, Raymond
    name part: 1915-1995
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 1986
    edition: First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ita
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 190 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we have already begun to forget about the Holocaust. His last book before his death, Levi returns to the subject that would define his reputation as a writer and a witness. Levi breaks his book into eight essays, ranging from topics like the unreliability of memory to how violence twists both the victim and the victimizer. He shares how difficult it is for him to tell his experiences with his children and friends. He also debunks the myth that most of the Germans were in the dark about the Final Solution or that Jews never attempted to escape the camps. As the Holocaust recedes into the past and fewer and fewer survivors are left to tell their stories, The Drowned and the Saved is a vital first-person testament. Along with Elie Wiesel and Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi is remembered as one of the most powerful and perceptive writers on the Holocaust and the Jewish experience during World War II. This is an essential book both for students and literary readers. Reading Primo Levi is a lesson in the resiliency of the human spirit.
  table of contents: Preface -- The memory of the offense -- The gray zone -- Shame -- Communicating -- Useless violence -- The intellectual in Auschwitz -- Stereotypes -- Letters from Germans -- Conclusion.
  note: Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal.
  note: Originally published in Italy in 1986 as I Sommersi e i salvati.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-pl---
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Levi, Primo
      name part: 1919-1987
  subject:
    topic: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
    genre: Personal narratives
  subject:
    topic: Authors, Italian
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Biography
  classification: D804.3 .L4813 2017
  classification: 940.54/72/4304386
  identifier: 9781501167638
  identifier: 1501167634
  identifier: 2017446831
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170928
    record change date: 20210710063052.0
    record identifier: in00004040404