Postal indiscretions: the correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski.

In a brief life traumatically disrupted by two years in concentration camps as a political prisoner, Tadeusz Borowski (1922-51) was destined to become one of the most eloquent witnesses to the Holocaust in Poland.
This book opens with Borowski's letter to his mother from Pawiak Prison the day after his arrest in 1943 and closes with an unsigned telegram informing his parents of a sudden illness, actually his suicide. The letters to and from family members, friends, and literary figures offer an indispensable picture of the world in the wake of the Nazis - and of the indelible stain that experience left upon the literature, politics, and life of Eastern Europe, in particular upon one gifted and doomed writer