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A review by ophelia_desdemona
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
5.0
“Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.”
Very powerful. Very dark. Brutal, harsch, haunting, chilling.
He writes with cold indifference and detachment. It's sharp and dispassionate with vivd imagery.
"Ordinary trucks bring people, return, then bring some more. No hocus-pocus, no poison, no hypnosis.
Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called we obediently go with them to die, and—we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number—the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.”
Like Blood Meridian it's a very difficult book to read. I cried a number of times and felt sick another number of times.
No matter how hard I try I will n.e.v.e.r. understand man's cruelty. Sixty years later and this is still relevant. War, slavery, starvation and inhumanity still goes on.
This is a must read in my opinion.
Very powerful. Very dark. Brutal, harsch, haunting, chilling.
He writes with cold indifference and detachment. It's sharp and dispassionate with vivd imagery.
"Ordinary trucks bring people, return, then bring some more. No hocus-pocus, no poison, no hypnosis.
Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called we obediently go with them to die, and—we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number—the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.”
Like Blood Meridian it's a very difficult book to read. I cried a number of times and felt sick another number of times.
No matter how hard I try I will n.e.v.e.r. understand man's cruelty. Sixty years later and this is still relevant. War, slavery, starvation and inhumanity still goes on.
This is a must read in my opinion.