Primo Levi: the survivor as victim

The idea that survivors are also victims is not new. Levi wrote from a point of view that he shared with others who had undergone analogous experience. What they share is not only personal connection to unimaginably harrowing experiences but the memory-wounds from such experiences, which remain with them for the rest of their lives and can erupt without warning, often explosively, at any time. Discusses Levi's experiences and depression