Second breath
By: [by] Jan Beneš. Translated from the Czech by Michael Montgomery.
Publisher: Orion Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; cze
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Czechoslovakia -- Fiction.
Description: Second Breath is a book about the Communist labor camp in the late 1950's. Written in 1963, its release was banned in Czechoslovakia ideological department of the Central Committee in 1964, so the book was first published in English in the United States under the name Second Breath (1969). First published in Czech, but again abroad, in Switzerland in publishing confrontation in 1974. The novel is a celebration of human solidarity and decency, qualities which the prisoners - mostly political - could not break the system, which is stripped of all rights by using them consistently across the prison machine trodden under foot the most basic - human dignity.
Notes: A novel.