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Men in Prison

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 at once a mirror of a society at war and a deeply personal question of purpose. Originally publis.

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  • "Victory-in-defeat, defeat-in-victory"@en

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  • "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 at once a mirror of a society at war and a deeply personal question of purpose. Originally publis."@en
  • "Victor Serge served five years in French penitentiaries (1912-1917) for the crime of 'criminal association' - in fact for his courageous refusal to testify against his old comrades, the infamous 'Tragic Bandits' of French anarchism. 'While I was still in prison,' Serge later recalled, 'fighting off tuberculosis, insanity, depression, the spiritual poverty of the men, the brutality of the regulations, I already saw one kind of justification of that infernal voyage in the possibility of describing it.'"
  • "Au cours d'un séjour en prison en 1913, l'auteur, militant anarchiste, raconte sous la forme d'un roman la résistance du prisonnier à la tuberculose, au cafard, à la misère morale et à la férocité des réglements pénitentiaires."

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  • "Personal narratives"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
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  • "Los hombres en la carcel"
  • "Men in prison : a major novel from the heart of the revolutionary movement"
  • "Les hommes dans la prison"
  • "Los Hombres en la carcel"
  • "Men in Prison"@en
  • "Men in Prison"
  • "Les hommes dans la prison : Roman"
  • "Les Hommes dans la prison. Avec une préface de Panaït Istrati"
  • "Men in prison"
  • "Men in prison"@en
  • "Les hommes dans la prison : roman"
  • "Les Hommes dans la prison"
  • "Men in prison : part one of 'Victory-in-defeat, defeat-in-victory'"
  • "Los hombres en la cárcel"@es
  • "Les hommes dans la prison roman"
  • "[Les hommes dans la prison.] Men in prison; translated with an introduction by Richard Greeman"
  • "Men in Prison. Translated With an Introd., by Richard Greeman"@en

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