The Drowned and The Saved

First edition
Author	Primo Levi
Original title	I sommersi e i salvati
Translator	Raymond Rosenthal
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Publisher	Einaudi (Italian) Summit Books (English)
Publication date	1986
Published in English	1988
Media type	Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback)
Pages	170
ISBN	0-349-10047-0
OCLC	59150087

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^[1]

1. The Memory of the Offense^[1]
2. The Gray Zone^[1]
3. Shame^[1]
4. Communicating^[1]
5. Useless Violence^[1]
6. The Intellectual in Auschwitz^[1]
7. Stereotypes^[1]
8. Letters from Germans^[1]

Conclusion^[1]

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.