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by Primo Levi; (Author)

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Publisher: Abacus (1800)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0349138648
ISBN-13: 978-0349138640
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 0.6 x 5.1 inches
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which is the book's great strength: the insights he draws from them and ...

September 1, 2015

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A truly sobering book. It is hard to read for long periods of time -- a break is needed just to clear one's head a bit before re-entering that time and place. Levi feared the lessons of the holocaust were being attenuated over time and the fact that this book is hard to get is ironic confirmation of that fear. This is the last book he wrote. The realism and specificity he includes are almost numbing, but they are not gratuitous, which is the book's great strength: the insights he draws from them and the exhortations that come from those insights are personal and persuasive. I would wish this book had wider circulation -- a hard but very valuable and emotional experience "listening" to Levi unburden his heart.

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A must read for those trying to understand how it could have happened

August 8, 2016

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I read this after seeing the film "Son of Saul" which I found disturbing in a way that other Holocaust films were not. Levi's book is an amazing, thought-provoking attempt to understand what can never be understood. He teaches the reader about the complexity of the horrors that the prisoners endured, especially those who were given the most horrific tasks in the camps. I am now better equipped to answer the outrageous views of those who today believe the Jews were weaklings who went "like sheep to the slaughter."

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Henry Greenspan

As important as a book gets

August 4, 2007

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It is redundant to praise this book or describe its background, which has been done very well by other reviewers. This was Levi's final wrestling with the implications of what he called the Lager (he didn't use the term 'Holocaust'), not only as he experienced it, but more generally.

Just a few points that may be less obvious. Levi never uses the phrase "survivor guilt," and his choice of terms was never without consideration. Rather, he uses the term, "shame." The chapter that goes by that name is an enormously subtle and evolving one. Levi continues to probe the feeling as he recalls it after "liberation," and there are at least five different concepts of what that "shame" entailed, no one of which did Levi think was definitive. By the way, none of Levi's definitions are the same as the popular notion of "survivor" guilt - that one feels guilty simply for having survived while others did not. The closest he comes is to talk about surviving "in place of another," which is a more complex idea. It refers specifically to the nature of the camps themselves, a horrific "laboratory," as Levi put it, in which selections, influence, luck and more did mean that one's survival always came at someone else's cost. This is a sociological point. It would not the case, for example, for the survivor of a tornado or earthquake.

Second, the "grey zone" is very often misinterpreted to suggest that perpetrators and victims met in some "middle ground" somewhere. Levi is definitive about this. The responsibility of the killers and the victims are in no sense, and in no context, equivalent. But in the squalid and horrific world that was the lager, there was an enormous range of types and characters. Levi is arguing mostly against what he calls "stereotypes" - convenient simplifications.

Finally, it may be of interest that "the drowned and the saved" was intended by Levi to be the title of his first book, If This is a Man (known in the U.S. as Survival in Auschwitz). His publisher disagreed, although there is a chapter in If This is a Man called Drowned and Saved. Levi's preoccupation with the role in the camp of differences in power, privilege, luck, and alliances-of-convenience runs throughout his work. It is a topic that still deserves much more attention than it has received.

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Christopher Junker

Beyond simple witnessing

March 27, 2014

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There are many first hand accounts of life in the German camps of Auschwitz, Treblinka, still more secondhand histories. For sheer unblinking depiction of the brutality of daily life of the camps, there are few accounts as shocking as Tadeusz Borowski’s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
But simple description, witnessing if you will, is not Primo Levi’s purpose, or at least not his only purpose in writing the books The Drowned and the Saved and If This is a Man. In these books we have as close as we can come to the view of an alien who has been landed in Auschwitz with no other experience of human behavior save perhaps what he has read in history books and is now trying to make sense of his observations.

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Also see "Shoah" for more insight into this great evil.

Deeply disturbing. Primo Levi had an obviously highly trained mind. Also see documentary "Shoah" for more insight into this great evil.

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As sad and depressing as Levi's books are

As sad and depressing as Levi's books are, I think he is by far the best writer on the Holocaust (the Shoah).

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but Primo Levi's insights are amazing. While it is impossible to comprehend the enormity ...

I don't always agree with his conclusions, but Primo Levi's insights are amazing. While it is impossible to comprehend the enormity and barbarity of the holocaust, reading...Read more

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