Summary
Primo Levi: Sunken and Saved
Which are the hierarchical and which are the technical structures of the authoritarian system that serve to nullify the personality of one person? What kind of relationships are created between the oppressors and the oppressed? Who are the beings that live in the "gray zone" of cooperation? How to create a monster? Was it possible to understand the logic of the machinery of extermination from within? Was it possible to rebel? And not only that: how does the memory of a drastic experience work? In his last book about the Nazi camps, published just a few months before his death, Primo Levi tries to answer all these questions. It is a kind of collection of thoughts based on experiences from Auschwitz that penetrate into the deepest core of human moral responsibility and relationships between people.
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