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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Modern Classics)

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Michael Kandel (Translator), Barbara Vedder (Translator), Michael Kandel (Translator), Jan Kott (Introduction), Tadeusz Borowski (Author)

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    Paperback 1992

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 26 Nov 1992
ISBN 10: 0140186247
ISBN 13: 9780140186246

Author Bio
Tadeusz Borowski was born in the Ukraine to Polish parents and was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Dachau from 1943 to 1945. Considered a great of postwar Polish literature, he attended a boarding schoool run by Franciscan monks and then studied literature in the underground Warsaw University--during the German occupation secondary school and college were forbidden to Poles. He was arrested in April 1943 and was held in the Pawiak prison, Auschwitz, Dautmergen-Natzweiler, and finally the Dachau-Allach camp, which was liberated by the US Army in May 1945.While much of his prewar work was comprised of poetry, his subsequent works detailing life in concentration camps were written in prose. His most famous work, a series of short stories called Farewell to Maria, was given the English title This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman. Borowski committed suicide in 1951, at the age of 28.