(PDF DOWNLOAD) The Drowned and the Saved

(PDF DOWNLOAD) The Drowned and the Saved

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Publisher: Abacus
Genres: Autobiography: Historical Books, European History, 20th Century History, Holocaust Books, Coming Soon
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Pages: 256 pages
ISBN10: 0349138648
ISBN13: 9780349138640
Tags: Autobiography: Historical Books, European History, 20th Century History, Holocaust Books, Free Download, PDF Download
Language: en
Physical Form: Book
Size: Huge
Type: Digital
Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The matter of his death was sudden, violent and unpremiditated, and there were some who argue that he killed 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 is Levi's impassioned attempt to understand the 'rationale' behind the concentration camps, was completed shortly before his tragic death in 1987. 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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