by Primo Levi · Ediciones Península · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499422947
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In 'The Drowned and the Saved', Primo Levi concludes his trilogy on the extermination camps, offering a profound reflection on his experience at Auschwitz. This book is a moral 'summa' that explores essential themes such as freedom, shame, responsibility, and commitment. Levi analyzes the experience of horror to understand the human being and its limits, making a call to piety as the basis of human ethics. Published shortly before his death, this book is a vital testimony of the critical awareness that the times demand.
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.
