prison narratives

[Michael Trittipo]

One that comes to mind, lesser known, is Druhý dech (Second Breath) by the
late Jan Beneš, from the Czech Republic.  Of course, there's always The
Great Escape.  :-)

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Sasha Spektor <xrenovo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Sealanders,
>
> Through a local think-tank I am planning to teach a course in the TN
> correctional institution next semester that focuses on prison narratives.
> God knows, Russian lit has some good ones:  Dostoevsky's ZMD,
> Solzhenitsyn's One Day, Shalamov's stories.  With a friend's excellent
> suggestion I'm thinking to include The Death of Ivan Ilyich (as matter
> imprisoning the soul) and Ward 6.
>
> But more heads are better than two, and I wanted to ask everyone for
> suggestions.  It doesn't have to be Russian, nor even East European.  It
> doesn't have to be fiction.  The only consideration that it shouldn't be
> too long -- a long story, a novella, a short novel at most.  Like Tolstoy's
> story it doesn't have to deal only with literal imprisonment, but can
> address incarceration as a metaphor as well.  Perhaps you know of an
> especially interesting article on the subject (my theoretical knowledge of
> it is pretty much circumscribed by Foucault).
>
> Please respond off the list and I'll compile a list afterwards to post it
> here.
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Sasha Spektor.
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