This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

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. 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. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.

• | Author: Tadeusz Borowski, Michael Kandel, Barbara Vedder
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Nov 26, 1992
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780140186246
• | ISBN-10: 0140186247