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Jan 20, 2020
Jessica Haider
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The Drowned and the Saved is a collection of essays by Primo Levi where he analyzes the experience of himself and others in Nazi concentration camps. Levi approaches the topic from several different angles..psychologically, scientifically, philosophically. A lot of the focus is on the fallibility of memory and how people want to make things black & white...good guys vs. bad guys. He also discusses techniques that the nazis used to dehumanize the prisoners in order to both control them and to dec
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This is a collection of essays about the questions that writing about the Holocaust raises. It was written 40 years after his book If This Is a Man. He seems to be dispairing that the Holocaust may be forgotten, or worse, replicated. He addresses the reasons why some managed to survive, and how their survivors' guilt affected the rest of their lives; why some prisoners became collaborators, and how memories are individual and changeable. It is an extremely intelligent and provocative read that w
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This is not a novel but more of an essay The Drowned and the Saved is an attempt at an analytical approach. The problem of the fallibility of memory, the techniques used by the Nazis to break the will of prisoners, the use of language in the camps and the nature of violence are all studied. It is written by Pimo Levi, an Italian Jew who was in Auschwitz. It is well written. My Levi is an agnostic. He makes reference and quotes many works of literature such as Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and Maz
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I didn't finish. I will try again though. Very thought provoking.
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Mekki
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Jan 02, 2020
Diane
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it was amazing
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