Pożegnanie z Marią

short stories by Borowski

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Pożegnanie z Marią (Farewell to Maria) is a collection of short stories by Polish writer Tadeusz Borowski. Published in 1948, these stories explore the profound human degradation experienced in Nazi concentration camps. Borowski, a poet and short-story writer, was himself a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau. His work is characterized by a desperate search for moral values amidst the horrors of war and occupation. The collection, along with Kamienny świat (The World of Stone), was later published in English as This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other Stories.1

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…two collections of short stories, Pożegnanie z Marią (1948; “Farewell to Maria”) and Kamienny świat (1948; “The World of Stone”), that explored the depths of human degradation in the Nazi concentration camps. (Both collections appear in the English translation This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other Stories…
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…two collections of short stories, Pożegnanie z Marią (1948; “Farewell to Maria”) and Kamienny świat (1948; “The World of Stone”), that explored the depths of human degradation in the Nazi concentration camps. (Both collections appear in the English translation This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other Stories…
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