Primo Levi
Paperback | Pages: 170 pages Rating: 4.41 | 5500 Users | 328 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Drowned and the Saved (Auschwitz Trilogy #3) |
| Author | : | Primo Levi |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 170 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 1989 by Abacus (first published 1986) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. World War II. Holocaust. Autobiography. Memoir |
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The author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to delve into the minds and motives of oppressors and oppressed alike. Describing the difficulty and shame of remembering, the limited forms of collaboration between inmates and SS goalers, the exploitation of useless violence and the plight of the intellectual, Levi writes about the issue of power, mercy and guilt, and their effects on the lives of the ordinary people who suffered so incomprehendingly.Details Books In Pursuance Of The Drowned and the Saved (Auschwitz Trilogy #3)
| Original Title: | I sommersi e i salvati |
| ISBN: | 0349100470 (ISBN13: 9780349100470) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Auschwitz Trilogy #3 |
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Ratings: 4.41 From 5500 Users | 328 ReviewsArticle Containing Books The Drowned and the Saved (Auschwitz Trilogy #3)
The third of a sort of Primo Levi Trilogy about Auschwitz and the holocaust, these books are really touching and teach a lot about the way people survived (or died) not only in the camps themselves, but also even after liberation.All sorts of "schemes" existed for those who wanted to stay alive, and the Author has a keen awareness that sometimes not all who survived were the "best" people, but those that somehow managed to find a way to stay alive.An incredible testimony.Maria Carmo,Lisbon, 15I felt compelled to read this (and other Holocaust literature) after the travesty that was the election of Donald Trump and the re-elevation of white supremacy and the entrenchment of Republican rule at all levels of government. Because it is not hyperbole to say that it *is* happening again now. I read this to try to figure some way that it might be stopped this time. But I don't think it can..."It took place in the teeth of all forecasts... it happened that an entire civilized people...
Levi's last book is about several things: - the necessity of witnessing to what happened in the Lager (camps), even though memory is fallible. Witnessing - telling the story - is not wholly possible, because those who have the truest vision did not survive. They reached bottom, and never came back.- the moral structure of the Lager - the gray zone in which some prisoners collaborated with the guards, which improved their position slightly and also meant they would have to inflict suffering on
This remarkable little book was so completely wonderful and soul-crushing and fascinating and thoughtful and utterly without pretension and I am in awe of Primo Levi's talent. There doesn't seem to be much of an overarching narrative or thesis to The Drowned and the Saved; rather, it reads more as a series of reflections on survival, on guilt, on culpability, on redemption. It is not sentimental and deals without restraint on uncomfortable topics like Jewish cooperation in the Nazi project, but
This remarkable little book was so completely wonderful and soul-crushing and fascinating and thoughtful and utterly without pretension and I am in awe of Primo Levi's talent. There doesn't seem to be much of an overarching narrative or thesis to The Drowned and the Saved; rather, it reads more as a series of reflections on survival, on guilt, on culpability, on redemption. It is not sentimental and deals without restraint on uncomfortable topics like Jewish cooperation in the Nazi project, but
Amazon 2008-07-26, impulse purchase upon reading the Wikipedia summary of Primo Levi.Pretty outstanding....Levi's fire burns on every page. This guy is quickly becoming a new favorite, cherished author of mine.
An extremely important reflection of the holocaust by one of its witnesses.
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