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The Drowned and the Saved

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| name = The Drowned and The Saved
| title_orig = I sommersi e i salvati
| translator = Raymond Rosenthal
| image = Image:drowned and saved.jpg
| border = yes
| caption = First edition
| author = Primo Levi
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| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| publisher = Einaudi (Italian)
Summit Books (English)
| release_date = 1986
| english_pub_date = 1988
| media_type = Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback)
| pages = 170
| isbn = 0-349-10047-0
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The Drowned and the Saved ({{lang-it|I sommersi e i salvati}}) is a book of essays on life in the Nazi extermination camps by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, 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, whereas If This Is a Man (1947) and The Truce (1963) were autobiographical.

The problem of the fallibility of memory
The techniques used by the Nazis to break the will of prisoners
The use of language and the (im-) possibility of communication in the camps
The nature of violence and whether there are different kinds of violence
The "zona grigia" (gray zone) made of the prisoners that worked for the Nazis in order to save themselves, controlling their fellow prisoners
Jean Améry and the intellectuals in Auschwitz
Letters from Germans and Levi's replies

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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.

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