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 "Borowski's
sharp-edged descriptions of life in Nazi concentration camps
shatter the limits of even Kafka's most surreal
imaginings."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal "The most
important work of the most challenging chronicler of
Auschwitz."-Timothy Snyder, from the foreword In 1943, the
twenty-year-old Polish poet 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.
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