First Albanian edition of Primo Levi’s book “The Drowned and the Saved”

“This essay is indispensable for understanding the 20th century and reconstructing the anthropology of contemporary man. For this reason, we are extremely proud that both the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Kosovan Ministry of Culture chose to support this first edition in Albanian, backing the efforts of the Kosovan publisher Dukagjini”,  the Ambassador of Italy in Pristina Antonello De Riu and the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana Alessandro Ruggera said.

With The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi (1919-1987) rounded off, forty years after “If This is a Man”, the testimony and reflections that animated his first book, centred on his memories of Auschwitz and his efforts to understand the mind of his torturers. The book, which took ten years to write, was published by Einaudi in the spring of 1986: quickly translated throughout the world, it is recognised as a brilliant work on the nature of evil and the nature of man.