“The phoenix hasn’t shaken off the ashes from which it rose”: revisiting Natzweiler-Struthof in Boris Pahor’s Nekropola.
In the semi-autobiographic novel Nekropola (Necropolis, 1966) of the Slovene author Boris Pahor (born in 1913), the main character revisits the concentration camp Natzweiler-Struthof where he spent part of his imprisonment during the Second World War. During this visit the world of the concentration...
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