The drowned and the saved
By: Primo Levi ; translated by Raymond Rosenthal ; introduction by Paul Bailey
Publisher: Joseph
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780718130633
Subjects: World War II
Work titles: Sommersi e i salvati
Description: Primo Levi spent over a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp. This book is an attempt to make some sense of his experiences, and to try to understand how a nation could set up a system to butcher millions of people. Eventually he gave up the struggle to come to terms with it and committed suicide in 1987.
Notes: Translation of: I sommersi e i salvati.