Necropolis (Slovenian Literature) - Softcover

Pahor, Boris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564786110 ISBN 13: 9781564786111

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010

Synopsis

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; the infirmary, reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor s stirring account of his attempts to provide medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps and of his coming to terms with the ineradicable guilt he feels, having survived when millions did not.

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About the Author:

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 born in 1941 in Zagreb. He has published over thirty books of poetry and frequently teaches at American universities, including Pittsburgh, Richmond, and Texas.

Review:

"[D]eserves a place alongside Primo Levi's and Imre Kertész's masterpieces of Holocaust literature."--La Repubblica

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1564786110
• ISBN 13: 9781564786111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182