Overview
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
- | Number of Pages:
- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780140186246
- | ISBN-10: 0140186247
