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The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi

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Author Biography

Name: Primo Levi
Birth Date: July 31, 1919
Death Date: April 11, 1987
Place of Birth: Turin, Italy
Place of Death: Turin, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: chemist, author

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Biography of Primo Levi
1395 words, approx. 4.7 pages
Italian author and chemist Primo Levi (1919-1987) was considered one of the foremost writers of concentration camp literature. He recounted with objective, scientific precision and detail the horrors of his year spent in Auschwitz. His focus, in life and...
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Biography of Primo Levi
7743 words, approx. 25.8 pages
Primo Levi, an Italian chemist and Auschwitz survivor, is a writer whose explorations of contemporary moral history put him at the forefront of Holocaust literature. He is most often associated with Holocaust writing through his first book, Se questo &eg...
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Biography of Primo Levi
4554 words, approx. 15.2 pages
Chemistry and literature, viewed by most people as widely different subjects, come together in the works of Primo Levi, an Italian Jew who was both a professional chemist and a professional writer. Levi said that he wanted to fill the gap between the ima...


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The Drowned and the Saved Information
246 words, approx. 1 pages
The Drowned and the Saved is a book of essays on life in the Nazi Vernichtungslager (extermination camps) by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, drawing on his personal experience as an inmate of Auschwitz. Whereas If This is a Man...


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Washington Monthly
The Drowned and the Saved.
04/01/1988: 484 words, approx. 2 pages
The Drowned and the Saved. Primo Levi. Summit, $17.95. Judeo-Christian culture takes comfort in believing that men who suffer unjustly, enduring privation and physical torture, can retain their moral fortitude and even draw strength from it. Primo Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz, shows...
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The Sunday Telegraph London
Not saving, but drowning
07/08/2007: 597 words, approx. 2 pages
There was good news for wading birds last week as they splashed around the back yards of South Yorkshire. The Environment Secretary, Hilary Benn, pledged another pounds 200million to create more damp environments for them. That is not quite what Mr Benn said, of...
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The New York Observer
Antony Sher's Primo Levi: Can the Holocaust Be Staged?
7/24/2005: 1,140 words, approx. 4 pages
I feel conflicted about writing a review of Antony Sher’s embodiment of the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi in Primo, although Sir Antony’s achievement is very fine, magnificent even, restrained, important, honest and uncorrupted. An actor, however great, relating the horrors of the death camps on...
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The New York Observer
Antony Sher's Primo Levi: Can the Holocaust Be Staged?
7/24/2005: 1,139 words, approx. 4 pages
I feel conflicted about writing a review of Antony Sher’s embodiment of the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi in Primo, although Sir Antony’s achievement is very fine, magnificent even, restrained, important, honest and uncorrupted.An actor, however great, relating the horrors of the death camps on Broadway...
 


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Critical Review by Anna Laura Lepschy
426 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following review, Lepschy derides Raymond Rosenthal's translation of The Drowned and the Saved.


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