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« If we die in silence as our enemies wish, the world will not know what man has done and what he can still do. : the world will not know itself. » This was noted by survivor Primo Levi, who killed himself in Turin a few months later, in 1987. A statement which echoes what he had written a few years earlier: “ The lesson of the camps is fraternity in abjection “. Author of novels, essays, short stories, and If it’s a man , essential and singular testimony on his concentration camp experience, Primo Levi also gave a long interview in the evening of his life, which Rivages is republishing today, in pocket format: The Zone grise. The former Auschwitz deportee undermined the victim-executioner dichotomy. A vague zone, an ambiguous in-between, which left its mark on daily life in the camps, and which makes any judgment impossible, at least perilous, between executioners and victims…