Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.
Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
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| ISBN-13: | 9780140186246 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 08/28/1992 |
| Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Series |
| Edition description: | Reissue |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Sales rank: | 93,936 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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