Men In Prison
Book description
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,…
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Victor Serge was too revolutionary for Bolshevik Russia and fled to France in the early part of the twentieth century. His lightly fictionalized account of French penitentiary life will not fail to make an impression–a pitiless and largely dispassionate picture of what was intended to be one of Europe’s most relentless penal experiences.
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