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Books : This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)In association with Amazon.comby: Tadeusz Borowski  List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 891.8537 EAN: 9780140186246 ISBN: 0140186247 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: August 01, 1992 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 6809 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - a realistic and chilling report by an Auschwitz survivorAn Auschwitz survivor tells us how the people the Nazis deported to this concentration camp lived, tried to survive and how mass murder by the Nazis was organized and carried out. Other former victims of deportation to extermination camps have told us the same stories, but the author of this book, the famous Polish writer Tadeusz Borowski, in particular succeeds in describing the terrible inhuman situation the camp inmates had to endure and the cruel treatment they suffered. I think it is impossible ... Read More Rating: - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - T BorowskiIt is difficult, with a moat of sixty years and an intellectual barricade of countless other World War II and Holocaust-related reading, to adequately begin to review this collection of short stories from Tadeusz Borowski. Falling back into the same reiteration of virtually all Holocaust/post-war writings is almost too easy: "This book serves as a reminder of the atrocities of war ...", "this book demonstrates how terrible man can be..." etc, etc, ad infinitum. Ad nauseum. The sorts of blanket recognitions ... Read More Rating:  - TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE...In the annals of holocaust literature, this is one of the more unflinching collection of death camp stories, as it depicts the stark reality of the desperate situation of those ensconced in concentration camps, where the final solution was frantically put into play. The stories are of the unimaginable and the nearly unendurable, replete with the inherent pathos of the situation of the truly desperate. It is shows the desensitization that takes place in order for one to survive the horrors of a death camp. ... Read More Rating: - A remembrance of things pastImre Kertesz, a concentration camp survivor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature often asks in his work: is there life after Auschwitz? Can one live with the ineffable guilt that accompanies survival against all odds? For Borowski the answer appears to be no. On July 1, 1951, at age 29, Tadeusz Borowski opened a gas valve, put his head in an oven and took his life. There is no small amount of irony in the fact that after escaping the gas of Auschwitz and Dachau Borowski would end his life in this manner. ... Read More Rating: - A lesson to learnWill you enjoy reading this book? The answer is no. But if you were to ask me if you should read this book then I would have to say absolutely. Borowski wrote with an honesty that I found amazing. He gave me a small window to look through and see what my grandparents might have gone through. This book while often shocking and always disturbing allows a little understanding into what life was like inside the death camps. Not for enjoyment but education. Browse for similar items by category:
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