Here in Our Auschwitz, and Other Stories
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Narrated by:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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By:
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Tadeusz Borowski
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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 20-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.
©2021 Yale University Press. Foreword © 2021 by Timothy Snyder (P)2022 Blackstone PublishingWhat listeners say about Here in Our Auschwitz, and Other Stories
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- 15-05-2022
Excellent in both content and introductory context
The prologue to this book is incredibly informative and lends useful context to the short stories themselves. Knowing what the author experienced gave depth and insight to the stories and, I think, improved the reading experience. The stories themselves are quite simply classics. With powerful, descriptive language, the author takes us into Auschwitz without melodrama while retaining the respectful and sympathetic voice so important when presenting such material. The simplicity of his language makes the stories so powerful and impactful. The narrator does a magnificent job with the material, not overly dramatic and very pleasing to listen to.
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