Men in Prison
A Politics, Russian Literature, Literature book. If I were teaching a course on prisons I would include this pointed,...
Startlingly human and unflinchingly honest, this thinly veiled fictionalized firsthand account of talented political writer Victor Serge's time in prison is an important addition to the canon of prison writing as well as an unfiltered view of humanity in the early 20th century. Rejecting the opportunity to present political propaganda, Serge's portrayal of imprisonment is instead an insightful and emotionally wrought tale of repression. The depraving brutality that Serge experienced behind bars is...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 260 pages
- ISBN: 9780904613506 / 0
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If I were teaching a course on prisons I would include this pointed, episodic novel which sketches the journey of a narrator from arrest through trial, a five-year incarceration, and release. Autobiographically inspired and designed to help exorcise him of a trauma--to glean lessons from a dark period and share them with an audience... ""Man used to live in caves. It's not so long ago that they burned heretics at the stake. Everything ends sometime. Prison will end someday. But men remain, men move on. The structure is cracking. Perhaps only one good blow is needed before everything changes. It's worth living for, and maybe even dying for. When there is enough bread... A very thought-provoking, literary and terrifying exposition on the experiences of imprisonment.
