Books by Tadeusz Borowski
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
by Tadeusz Borowski
Borowski was an Auschwitz survivor… It’s a horrifying book. The narrator is someone who selfishly, so it seems, wants to protect himself from death and hunger – but at the same time he cannot but see what is happening: so he has this struggle which is horrifying in and of itself, and at the same time dehumanising and humanising. The struggle to stay a human being in a challenging situation is that if you want to stay a human being ethically, you have to stay a human being physically.
Interviews where books by Tadeusz Borowski were recommended
Aleksandar Hemon on Man’s Inhumanity to Man
When reading books, we often empathize with a main character and find redemption in our emotional response to their fate. But it’s more important to think, says Bosnian novelist Aleksandar Hemon. Here, he picks the best books on ‘man’s inhumanity to man.’
