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==Legacy== His books are recognized as classics of Polish post-war literature and had much influence in Central European society. * Tadeusz Borowski is the subject of the 'Beta' section in [[Czesław Miłosz]]'s book, ''[[The Captive Mind]]''. * His friend Tadeusz Drewnowski published several books about Borowski, including the 1962 biography ''Ucieczka z kamiennego świata'' (''Escape from the World of Stone'') and ''Postal indiscretions: the correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski''. * The 1970 Polish film ''[[Landscape After the Battle]]'' is based on Borowski's writings. * The 1984 [[Style Council]] song "[[Shout to the Top!|Ghosts of Dachau]]" was inspired by ''[[This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen]]''.<ref>Rachel, Daniel (2014). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hL1zAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA174 Isle of Noises: Conversations with great British songwriters]''. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. {{ISBN|9781250051295}}. p. 174.</ref> * Borowski's books are mentioned in the award-winning 1995 [[novel]] ''[[The Reader]]'' ("Der Vorleser") by the [[German people|German]] author [[Bernhard Schlink]], in which a former concentration camp guard commits suicide in remorse after reading Borowski's and other survivors' memoirs. * In 2002, [[Imre Kertész]], while receiving the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], stated that all his works were written because of his own fascination with Borowski's prose.
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