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Necropolis (Slovenian Literature Series)
Boris Pahor
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Description for Necropolis (Slovenian Literature Series)
Paperback. Translator(s): Biggins, Michael. Series: Slovenian Literature Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 228.
Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau, and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable microcosm of Europe Italians, French, Russians, Dutch, Poles, Germans. Twenty years later, when he visits a camp in the Vosges Mountains that has been preserved as a historical monument, images of his experiences come back to him: corpses being carried to the ovens; emaciated prisoners in wooden clogs and ragged, zebra-striped uniforms, struggling up the steps of a quarry or standing at roll call in the cold rain; ... Read more
Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau, and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable microcosm of Europe Italians, French, Russians, Dutch, Poles, Germans. Twenty years later, when he visits a camp in the Vosges Mountains that has been preserved as a historical monument, images of his experiences come back to him: corpses being carried to the ovens; emaciated prisoners in wooden clogs and ragged, zebra-striped uniforms, struggling up the steps of a quarry or standing at roll call in the cold rain; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Slovenian Literature Series
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564786111
SKU
V9781564786111
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Ref
99-15
About Boris Pahor
Boris Pahor is a member of the Slovenian national minority in Italy, and is considered among the greatest living writers in the Slovenian language. Several of his works portray the experiences of World War II concentration camp prisoners, and their attempts to reintegrate into everyday life after the war--a process that Pahor, a Dachau survivor, personally experienced. Tomaž Salamun was ... Read more
Reviews for Necropolis (Slovenian Literature Series)
"[D]eserves a place alongside Primo Levi's and Imre Kert sz's masterpieces of Holocaust literature."
La Repubblica
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