Truck of fools
By: Carlos Liscano ; translated by Elizabeth Hampsten.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Liscano, Carlos, 1949- -- Imprisonment; Authors, Uruguayan -- 20th century -- Biography; Political prisoners -- Uruguay -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Truck of Fools is a personal account of incarceration and torture. It recalls the author's thirteen years as a political prisoner of Uruguay's neofascist regime during the 1970s and 1980s. An acutely perceptive poet-novelist, Carlos Liscano offers insight into not only the physical and psychological plight of the prisoner but also the mindset of his tormentors." "The first major work by Liscano to appear in English, this book also includes an essay, "A Life without Object(s)," in which the author reflects on how the brutalities of prison corrupt and distort language."--BOOK JACKET.