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- Title
Hunger of the Imagination: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Tadeusz Borowski, and the Twentieth-Century House of the Dead.
- Authors
Tołczyk, Dariusz
- Abstract
A literary criticism of several books, including "Night," by Elie Wiesel, "A World Apart," by Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, and "The House of the Dead," by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is presented. It explores the horrors of several concentration camps back in the twentieth century being the main topic of the books including the Auschwitz camp, the Nazi camp, and the Kolyma camp. It examines the camp stories by Tadeusz Borowski which are based on his experience in Auschwitz and other German camps.
- Subjects
NIGHT (Book : Wiesel); WORLD Apart, A (Book); HOUSE of the Dead, The (Book); WIESEL, Elie, 1928-2016; HERLING-Grudzinski, Gustaw; DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor, 1821-1881; CONCENTRATION camps in literature; BOROWSKI, Tadeusz
- Publication
Literary Imagination, 2001, Vol 3, Issue 3, p340
- ISSN
1523-9012
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/litimag/3.3.340