The Drowned and the Unsaved.(Review) From: The Nation | Date: April 9, 2001| Author: Leonard, John | COPYRIGHT 2001 The Nation Company L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

 
THE VOICE OF MEMORY: Primo Levi Interviews 1961-87. 
Edited by Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon. Translated by Robert Gordon. 
The New Press. 306 pp. $24.95. 

He jumped, of course. But also he was pushed. And when Primo Levi, on "a sudden violent impulse," threw himself down three flights of stairwell in the Art Nouveau apartment house on the Corso Re Umberto in Turin--where, except for twenty months in World War II as "a dead man on vacation," he had lived his entire ...