SOURCE: “A Discovery of Tragedy: (The Incomplete Account of Tadeusz Borowski),” in Polish Review, Vol. XII, No. 3, Summer, 1967, pp. 43-52.
In the following essay, Wirth argues that Borowski's short stories of the Holocaust represent the invention of a new conception of tragedy in literature that is suitable for expressing the horrors of twentieth-century crimes against humanity.
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