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 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 The Memory of the Offense The Gray Zone Shame Communicating Useless Violence The Intellectual in Auschwitz Stereotypes 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. See also Social Darwinism