Stroud Radical Reading Group – The Drowned and The Saved – HMD 2024
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Stroud Radical Reading Group
Website: https://stroudradicalreading.com/2024/01/15/primo-levi/
Address:
Lansdown Hall
Lansdown Road
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 1BB
United Kingdom
As part of a day of events marking Holocaust Memorial Day in Stroud, we will discuss Primo Levi’s book The Drowned and The Saved, from 3.30-5.30pm at The Lansdown Hall in Stroud (GL5 1BB), on Sunday 28th January. This will follow Stroud’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, hosted by Community Solidarity Stroud District, from 2-3pm at the same venue.
The Drowned and The Saved is a book of eight essays by Italian-Jewish author, Primo Levi. It is his last work, written a year before his death. It is an analytical book about life and death in the Nazi extermination camps, informed by Levi’s personal experience as a survivor of Auschwitz.
The book is in stock at the Yellow Lighted Bookshop in Nailsworth, and can be read online for free (see links on the stroudradicalreading.com website).
Stroud Radical Reading Group events are free to attend, though we will make a collection to cover costs. Anyone is welcome to listen to the discussion, though we encourage contributions only from those who have read at least some of the book. If you do not have time to read the whole book, please choose a single essay to read.
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Other organisation(s) involved
Community Solidarity Stroud District