 First edition | |
| Author | Primo Levi |
|---|---|
| Original title | I sommersi e i salvati |
| Translator | Raymond Rosenthal |
| Language | Italian |
| Publisher | Einaudi (Italian) Summit Books (English) |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Publication place | Italy |
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.