Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Tadeusz Borowski

ISBN 10: 030011690X / ISBN 13: 9780300116908

Published by Yale University Press, 2021

A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteedâ but the story's all there! Seller Inventory # PKV.030011690X.G

Synopsis:

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 and journalist 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.

About the Author: Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951), a Polish poet, short story writer and journalist, was arrested as a political prisoner and deported to German concentration camps. He survived, but a few years later committed suicide at the age of 29. Madeline G. Levine is Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is a distinguished translator of Polish belles lettres, including works by Czeslaw Milosz and Ida Fink.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories (The...
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good