Primo Levi’s Suicide Note (IN: On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question, edited by J Miller)

In this 1988 essay, Ozick examines the writer Primo Levi’s unusual suicide note – his last novel, “The Drowned and the Saved”. Levi’s previous works are notable for their detachment from the events he experienced in Auschwitz. Ozick argues that in his last novel Levi expresses the rage that he had suppressed for so long.