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Borowski's experiences are horrendous. His writing is superb. With few words and little emotion he manages to bring the horror of the concentration camp experience into these pages. His writing style, detached, shows how man had to separate himself in order to live day to day under these horrific conditions.
Throughout, I thought I could feel his guilt for having survived. Perhaps I'm reading things into Borowski's words. He sounds so haunted.
This is probably as close as we can get to finding o ...more
Throughout, I thought I could feel his guilt for having survived. Perhaps I'm reading things into Borowski's words. He sounds so haunted.
This is probably as close as we can get to finding o ...more
How do you write about the Holocaust? Well, Borowski elects one radical approach: just tell what happened.
That doesn't mean that this isn't fiction, or that the author is not making a point with what he chooses to relate in each story. But the ingredients of his stories are real concentration camp events, and they are presented with a dry, sometimes jaded reportage style, even though they all have an "I" in the midst of them. The stories are painful, not only because of the portrayal of atrociti ...more
That doesn't mean that this isn't fiction, or that the author is not making a point with what he chooses to relate in each story. But the ingredients of his stories are real concentration camp events, and they are presented with a dry, sometimes jaded reportage style, even though they all have an "I" in the midst of them. The stories are painful, not only because of the portrayal of atrociti ...more
How does one rate & review a book like this? I had to create a whole new GR bookshelf called "nightmare fuel" to accommodate this one. In lieu of the creative string of expletives I WAS going to use to attempt my review, I'll take a hint from my recent Dante review and post Hieronymus Bosch instead. A picture is worth a thousand swear words, after all.
The strange thing about reading a this very graphic--yet still somehow poetic--book of the Holocaust immediately after The Divine Comedy is that i ...more
The strange thing about reading a this very graphic--yet still somehow poetic--book of the Holocaust immediately after The Divine Comedy is that i ...more
This was a difficut book for me to read. Borowski tells of his own experiences while a prisoner in a concentration camp. It tells the storeis of what prisoners did to survive, from the first person perspective. Mr. Borowski committed suicide at age 31, although he was able to survive the concentration camps, he could not live with the aftermath and memories . Borowski was an excellent writer, in tells his stories in straighforward language.
I wanted to like this book. But it was just ok. The whole time I was reading, I kept thinking about Night...and how much better I liked Night. I found this book to be disjointed and scattered and it got worse as the book went on. The fact that it was short stories didn’t work for me. I felt like the book was random info and I never got to know any of the characters. It’s not that I don’t like short stories either. I have read plenty that didn’t have this problem for me. I also thought this book
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Jan 17, 2010
Cait
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it was amazing
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