Volume 35, Number 4 · March 17, 1988
The Lie in the Soul
By J.M. Cameron
The Drowned and the Saved
by Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal
Summit, 203 pp., $17.95
Those of us who have been alive for seventy years or more are sometimes visited with a strange impulse: to take the middle-aged and the young in a firm grip and urge them to listen to the stories of our lives. We feel ourselves driven to interrupt wedding feasts and other such happy occasions. Of course, we don't suppose our lives to be especially interesting in themselves; but we want to talk about what we have witnessed, at first or second hand, things that are, for those we wish to harangue, mere history, sad events of long ago, as the American Civil War or the September Massacres are for us.
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