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    The Drowned And The Saved

     
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    The Drowned And The Saved

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    Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auscwitz while others, better than he, had gone to the wall.

    'The Drowned and the Saved dispels the myth that Primo Levi forgave the Germans for what they did to his people. He didn't, and couldn't forgive. Her refused, however, to indulge in what he called "the bestial vice of hatred" which is an entirely different matter. The voice that sounds in his writing is that of a reasonable man . . . it warns and reminds us that the unimaginable can happen again. A would-be tyrant is waiting in the wings, with "beautiful words" on his lips. The book is constantly impressing on us the need to learn from the past, to make sense of the senseless'
    Paul Bailey

    'Levi writes of unspeakable things with charity, clarity and objectivity'
    Sunday Times

    'Not a word he writes should be missed'
    Independent

    Product details

    EAN/ISBN:
    9780349138640
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    256
    Publication date:
    2013-07-04
    Publisher:
    Abacus
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780349138640
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    256
    Publication date:
    2013-07-04
    Publisher:
    Abacus

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