This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

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.

• Author
• Tadeusz Borowski, Jan Kott

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 192

• Series
• Penguin Modern Classics

• Publisher
• Penguin Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-018624-6

• EAN
• 9780140186246

• Release date
• 1992