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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

by Michael Kandel, Jan Kott, Tadeusz Borowski, Barbara Vedder
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About this book

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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780140186246
ISBN10 0140186247
Series/Work OL870670W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Penguin Classics
Language EN-US
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

18.54 Polish language and/or literature Atrocities Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Concentration camps Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction History Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Literature and the war Manners and customs Nazi concentration camps Polish War stories Social life and customs Translations into English World War, 1939-1945

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