The Drowned and the Saved


The Drowned and the Saved 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 experience as a survivor of Auschwitz.
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 and The Truce, which are autobiographical.

Contents

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

Miscellaneous

The title of one essay was used as title for the film The Grey Zone, which is based on a book by Miklós Nyiszli.