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    <body><![CDATA[This book is divided for eight esseys:<br/>a) Memory of indignity<br/>b) Grey area<br/>c) Shame - shame that you survived instead of a person, who you think was more intelligent, educated, produuctive. <br/>d) Communicating - prisoners of Auschitz had problems with communicating with each other ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48717384">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a selection of a book club that I'm in. I have read a slew of books about the Holocaust and wasn't sure that I was ready for another one. I was wrong.<br/><br/>What I liked about this book is that it is a reflection, and memories to put the reflections into context, about a horrific ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51591041">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The final masterpiece from Levi is dedicated to examining his remembrances of the Holocaust and the aftermath. His depictions of his fellow survivors and the blind sadism of their captors are rendered in the most vivid light which makes it difficult to read. The most unsettling chapter is the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39832315">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I always wanted to read Primo Levi, especially &quot;The Periodic Table&quot;. I picked it up a couple of weeks ago for 2 Euros at the British Bookstore in Vienna. While reading this book every night before falling asleep, I was often reminded of one of George Steiner's collection of essays, &quot;L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19756881">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book I've read about a Holocaust survivor. It was riveting, read it in 3 days. Levi's attempt to understand the enormity of the atrocities in the death camps...understanding the German mindset. What struck me most was his statement that the best died in the camps...and the worse survived! ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70209160">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I should reread a lot of the Primo Levi books, I have such a terrible memory. But this is one of the ones where he struggles with the memories of how random and unfair it was that he survived, and deals with the guilt for anything he did to survive that may have come at the expense of another prison...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43305524">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a college class. It was insightful into the nature of human forgiveness. I need to re-read this.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Drowned and the Saved (Vintage International) by Primo Levi (1989)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book puts lie the simplistic view of the Holocaust we grew up with in films like &quot;Life is Beautiful.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is rattling, gripping.  Primo Levi was a brilliant mind &amp; isn't afraid to highlight the complexities of banal human nature.  A look inside the Nazi concentration camps, Levi writes as a survivor who denies being a victim.  The only pure were the ones who died because the ones who survived ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11811872">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the final book published by Levi before his death in 1987.  It contains a kind of summation of his views on Hitlerian Germany, his experiences in the Auschwitz Arbeitslager and afterwards, and a continuation of some of the ideas he had introduced in earlier works (the title comes from a dis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4088359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has made me realise that the empathy I thought I felt for the Jews in the concentration camps--an empathy that I believe exists by virtue of our common humanity--was misguided and shallow.<br/>This book made me ask: What is personal integrity? Am I a person of integrity? It made me realise...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64870803">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very different book than some of the other books I've read about the holocaust. Primo Levi has written several books that are more memoir type books about specific events of his experience in the Auschwitz. This book reads more like a sociology book. It explores different aspects of how we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28041540">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. More graphic (and in turn more disturbing/uncomfortable) than other Holocaust memoirs. The book's first chapters were difficult to get through due to the skirting of the focal point. My favorite part was Chapter 3, &quot;Shame&quot;. This chapter was quite profound and changed the read o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34870997">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Primo Levi survived Auschwitz but, as you can imagine, it altered him forever.  After living many “successful years” after the war he eventually committed suicide.  In <em>The Drowned and the Saved</em> Levi writes of the horrors of the Holocaust but his biggest fear is that this could happen again.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6316158">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazon 2008-07-26, impulse purchase upon reading the Wikipedia summary of Primo Levi.<br/><br/>Pretty outstanding....Levi's fire burns on every page. This guy is quickly becoming a new favorite, cherished author of mine.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best insight into the Holocaust I've ever read. It is written from the view of someone who was not only there, but was able to keep his sanity and write about it with a balanced view.]]></body>
    
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