Necropolis
Pahor, Boris2020
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Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. 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.
Main title:
Necropolis / Boris Pahor ; translated by Michael Biggins.
Author:
Pahor, Boris, authorBiggins, Michael, translator
Edition:
[New edition] / introduced by Alan Yentob.
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2020.
Collation:
xix, 172 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Slovenian.Previous edition of this translation: Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.
ISBN:
9781838852290 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5318092940.5318
LC class:
D805.G3
Language:
EnglishSlovenian
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BRN:
2657786
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