I bought this book because it was required reading material for a course about the Holocaust. Wow! It is powerfully written in simple language, by a man who endured the atrocities of Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps. It is written with conversations, as the Polish-born author remembers them. Sometimes there is humor. Sometimes there is love. Sometimes his descriptions turn your stomach and you wonder why you continue to read with sick fascination. Tadeusz Borowski set out to write a world-changing immortal epic, which he accomplished with great poetic grandeur. It is amazing how much emotion he was able to put on paper, when after the war he could no longer feel those emotions. He reflects on things that mean so much to the rest of us in everyday life, food, sexuality, common comforts, or even the freedom to walk around without restraint. Subconsciously he knows he should be enjoying life, responding to it, but to him it is all trivial. He is just going through the motions. This book is the work of a master-writer. One wonders how he endured and witnessed unimaginable, atrocities when in the end, he succumbed to his own personal demons. For Tadeusz Borowski, freedom was never without painful cost. Ironically, he intentionally died at his own hand when he opened a gas valve in 1951. Only now is he truly free.Read full review
We all learn about the concentration camps as kids in school, but not from the angle as it's explained in this Borowski collection . Terrifying and amazing short stories. The will to survive shows no bounds in these stories. I was shook and dramatically moved. It was incredibly dark, but full of enlightenment. I highly recommend !!
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very depressing reading on a bitter topic
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