The Drowned And The Saved - Brossura

Levi, Primo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349138648 ISBN 13: 9780349138640

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2013

Riassunto

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 Auschwitz 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. He 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

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Recensione:

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

Not a word he writes should be missed (Independent)

One of the most devastating masterworks of our era (Observer)

Descrizione del libro:

Primo Levi's devastating and classic account of what it meant to have survived the Holocaust.

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0349138648
• ISBN 13: 9780349138640
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256