This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Author

Tadeusz Borowski

Original Work

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Translators

Barbara Vedder·Michael Kandel

Editor

Barbara Vedder

Foreword / Afterword

Jan Kott

Language

English

Year

1976

Publisher

Penguin

Country

United Kingdom

Pages

180

ISBN

978-0140186246

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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 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.— Google Books