Collection
Genres
Status
Available
Description
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.
Publication
New York : Penguin Books, c1976.
ISBN
0140186247 / 9780140186246
Pages
180
Language
Original language
Polish
Original publication date
1948
1967 (English: Vedder)
Other editions
This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski (Paperback)