The Drowned and the Saved

For the Law & Order episode, see The Drowned and the Saved (Law & Order).

The Drowned and the Saved (Italian: I sommersi e i salvati) 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.

The Drowned and The Saved

First edition
Author	Primo Levi
Original title	I sommersi e i salvati
Translator	Raymond Rosenthal
Language	Italian
Publisher	Einaudi (Italian) Summit Books (English)
Publication date	1986
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	1988
Media type	Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback)
Pages	170
ISBN	0-349-10047-0
OCLC	59150087

Contents

Preface^[1]

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

Conclusion^[1]

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