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Genre/Form: | short stories War fiction Short stories Autobiographical fiction Fiction Translations War stories Nouvelles Translations into English Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Named Person: | Tadeusz Borowski; Tadeusz Borowski; Tadeusz Borowski |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tadeusz Borowski |
ISBN: | 0140186247 9780140186246 |
OCLC Number: | 1037578246 |
Description: | 180 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents: | This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen -- 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. |
Series Title: | Penguin twentieth-century classics. |
Other Titles: | Short stories. |
Responsibility: | Tadeusz Borowski ; selected and translated by Barbara Vedder ; introduction by Jan Kott ; introduction translated by Michael Kandel. |
Abstract:
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.
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