The Drowned and the Saved

Zusatztext One of the most devastating masterworks of our era Informationen zum Autor Primo Levi, Translated by Raymond Rosenthal Klappentext Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved , Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auscwitz while others, better than he, had gone to the wall. ' The Drowned and the Saved dispels the myth that Primo Levi forgave the Germans for what they did to his people. He didn't, and couldn't forgive. Her refused, however, to indulge in what he called "the bestial vice of hatred" which is an entirely different matter. The voice that sounds in his writing is that of a reasonable man . . . it warns and reminds us that the unimaginable can happen again. A would-be tyrant is waiting in the wings, with "beautiful words" on his lips. The book is constantly impressing on us the need to learn from the past, to make sense of the senseless' Paul Bailey 'Levi writes of unspeakable things with charity, clarity and objectivity' Sunday Times 'Not a word he writes should be missed' Independent Primo Levi's devastating and classic account of what it meant to have survived the Holocaust. Zusammenfassung Primo Levi's devastating and classic account of what it meant to have survived the Holocaust.

Product details

• Authors: Primo Levi
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9780349138640
• ISBN: 978-0-349-13864-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 130 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Holocaust, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, HISTORY / Military / Napoleonic Wars, Second World War, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Autobiography: historical, political and military, c 1940 to c 1949