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Genre/Form: | Polish fiction short stories War fiction Short stories Autobiographical fiction Fiction Translations War stories Nouvelles Romans, nouvelles, etc Translations into English |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Borowski, Tadeusz, 1922-1951. This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen. New York : Penguin Books, ©1976 (OCoLC)647675654 |
Named Person: | Tadeusz Borowski; Tadeusz Borowski; Tadeusz Borowski |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tadeusz Borowski; Barbara Vedder; Jan Kott; Michael Kandel |
ISBN: | 9780140186246 0140186247 9780140041149 0140041141 |
OCLC Number: | 2458688 |
Language Note: | Translated into English from the orignal Polish. |
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 classics. |
Other Titles: | Short stories. |
Responsibility: | Tadeusz Borowski ; selected and translated by Barbara Vedder ; introduction by Jan Kott ; introduction translated by Michael Kandel. |
Abstract:
Presents stories which are based on the author's own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. This title describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; and, where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup.
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