The Drowned and the Saved
# The Drowned and the Saved

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.

## Contents

    Preface
* The Memory of the Offense
* The Gray Zone
* Shame
* Communicating
* Useless Violence
* The Intellectual in Auschwitz
* Stereotypes
* Letters from Germans

    Conclusion

## 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.

