tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post3696693587621389166..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: God on Trial revisitedGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-12478135999433856022008-09-08T19:08:00.000+01:002008-09-08T19:08:00.000+01:00Yes, I know.But it sounds better coming from Levi ...Yes, I know.<BR/><BR/>But it sounds better coming from Levi than from someone outside. I would never dare say that. The writer would have thought deeply about it.<BR/><BR/>And of course Levi survived.<BR>George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-38043128727972903102008-09-08T18:41:00.000+01:002008-09-08T18:41:00.000+01:00There is a passage in Primo Levi's essay on 'Shame...There is a passage in Primo Levi's essay on 'Shame' (The Drowned and the Saved) where he writes:<BR/><BR/>"The 'saved' of the Lager were not the best, those predestined to do good; the bearers of a message. What I had seen and lived through proved the exact contrary. Preferably the worst survived, the selfish, the violent, the insensitive, the collaborators of the 'grey zones', the spies".<BR/><BR/>I presumed this is what inspired that argument in the drama.Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.com