| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
A Margellos world republic of letters book |
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Margellos world republic of letters book.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword, by Timothy Snyder -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Translator's Introduction -- From We Were in Auschwitz -- Here in Our Auschwitz -- The People Who Were Walking -- Farewell to Maria -- Farewell to Maria -- A Day at Harmenze -- Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Gas -- The Death of an Insurgent -- The Battle of Grunwald -- The World of Stone: A Narrative in Twenty Pictures -- A Brief Preface -- The World of Stone -- A Story from Real Life -- The Death of Schillinger -- The Man with the Package -- Supper -- Silence |
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Encounter with a Child -- The End of the War -- "Independence Day" -- Opera, Opera -- A Journey in a Pullman Car -- My Room -- Summer in a Small Town -- The Girl from the Burned-out Building -- An Advance -- A Hot Afternoon -- Under the Heroic Partisan -- Diary of a Journey -- A Bourgeois Evening -- A Visit -- Uncollected Stories: Before and After Auschwitz -- The Boy with a Bible -- Freimann Journal -- Fatherland -- The January Offensive -- An Auschwitz Lexicon |
| Summary |
The most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny In 1943, the twenty-year-old Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. What he experienced in the camp left him convinced that no one who survived Auschwitz was innocent. All were complicit; the camp regime depended on this. Borowski's tales present the horrors of the camp as reflections of basic human nature and impulse, stripped of the artificial boundaries of culture and custom. Inside the camp, the strongest of the prisoners form uneasy alliances with their captors and one another, watching unflinchingly as the weak scrabble and struggle against their inevitable fate. In the last analysis, suffering is never ennobling and goodness is tantamount to suicide. Bringing together for the first time in English Borowski's major writings and many previously uncollected works, this is the most complete collection of stories in a new, authoritative translation, with a substantial foreword by Timothy Snyder that speaks to its enduring relevance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Borowski, Tadeusz, 1922-1951 -- Translations into English
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| SUBJECT |
Borowski, Tadeusz, 1922-1951 fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Internment camps
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Poland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Poland
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| Genre/Form |
short stories.
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Fiction
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Translations
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Short stories.
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Nouvelles.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Levine, Madeline G., translator.
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Snyder, Timothy
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| ISBN |
0300160208 |
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9780300160208 |
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