This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)
by Tadeusz Borowski
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Author: Tadeusz BorowskiEditor: Barbara Vedder
Translator: Barbara Vedder
Introduction: Jan Kott
Translator: Michael Kandel
Edition: Paperback
Audio: Polish (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-08-01
ISBN: 0140186247
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary: 5 Stars
Borowski was a Polish 21 year old whose parents had been in and out of the Soviet Gulag since he was 4 - when he was arrested, tortured and sent to Auschwitz. 23 when released, he wrote these astounding stories and then committed suicide when he was 29, 3 days after the birth of his child. His stories are dispassionate, acutely observed explorations of the moral universe that was warped and perverted by the concentration camp system. He confronts his own corruption. He creates an unavoidable connection between the world outside the KZ and the attempts at survival within. He shows us clearly how for some people, there was no healing. His stories have been beautifully translated into a simple, straightforward English. I would urge anyone interested in the Holocaust to read these extraordinary stories.
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