Author: Tadeusz Borowski Year: 1947 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Short Stories, War/Military Culture: Poland
Purchase/reserch links:
ISBNs: 9780140186246 0140186247 |
|
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.
Similar books:
|