Jan Kott > Quotes

“For Borowski, the son of Soviet prisoners and the posthumous child of Auschwitz, the whole world is a concentration camp—was and will be… Borowski called his book about Auschwitz ‘a voyage to the limit of a particular experience.’ At the limit of that experience Auschwitz is no exception but the rule. History is a sequence of Auschwitzes, one following the other.”
― Jan Kott, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

“Отсъствието на трагедия в един трагичен свят ражда комедия.”
― Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary

“Ancient Tragedy is loss of life, modern Tragedy is loss of purpose.”
― Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary