Nekropole

Nekropole is one of the most translated books by Slovenian prose writer and essayist Boris Pahor. It provides a comprehensive picture of life (non-life, death) in a concentration camp. The book also includes an introduction by essayist and writer Claudio Magris, in which the author writes: "Powerful human breath accompanies clear, austere precision in a perfect narrative structure, in which the description of the past—imprisonment relived with an enduring sense of horror—intersects with a report on the present, on a visit after many years to that sanitized hell, which has become a museum and a memento of itself... Nekropole is a masterpiece (if aesthetic criteria can be applied to testimony about absolute evil) also because of its crystal-clear structural enlightenment, that intertwining of times – verbal and existential – from which the narrative is woven... You are reading a book about historical infamy, which has become universal desolation, absolute emptiness.