This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski ; selected and translated by Barbara Vedder ; introduction by Jan Kott ; introduction translated by Michael Kandel
Introduction / Introduction / Jan Kott -- The world of stone A day at Harmenz -- The people who walked on -- Auschwitz, our home (a letter) -- The death of Schillinger -- The man with the package -- The supper -- A true story -- Silence -- The January offensive -- A visit -- The world of stone
Summary:
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 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. -- from http://www.amazon.com (March 24, 2014)
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