Édouard Louis revisits The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi

Writer Édouard Louis shares the profound impact of *The Drowned and the Saved* on his thinking.

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Forty years after its publication, Primo Levi's essay on Auschwitz remains an intellectual bombshell.

Louis explores this reading as a mirror of contemporary violence and memory.

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