Author: Tadeusz Borowski. Translated by Barbara Vedder. Introduction by Jan Kott, and intro translated by Michael Kandel. Published by Penguin Books, New York, NY., 1976, (1st Edition was published in 1959). Printed in USA. Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor cover wear. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 7.75 x 5 inch, 180 pages.
THIS WAY FOR THE GAS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, are Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories, and 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.
