Sanderson holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing and is an independent writer. In this essay, she looks at the techniques Borowski uses in his short story to develop a narrator who, while appearing to be detached from the atrocities he witnesses and participates in at Auschwitz, still presents evidence of his humanity.
After reading the cycle of Auschwitz stories in Polish writer Tadeusz Borowski's collection This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, many critics understandably focus on the author's apparently amazing detachment from the gruesome subject matter, as well as on his extreme pessimism about human nature. Borowski's thinly veiled autobiographical stories about life as a non-Jew sentenced to a Nazi concentration camp are breathtaking in their horror; Borowski propels the reader into a world so foreign from his or her.....
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