Jail sentences
Subtitle: representing prison in twentieth-century French fiction
By: Andrew Sobanet.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780803213791
Subjects: French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Prisons in literature
Description: "Jail Sentences is the definitive study of the legacy of the Western tradition of prison writing in twentieth-century French literature. Although Sobanet focuses primarily on French writers Victor Serge, Jean Genet, Albertine Sarrazin, and Francois Bon - his keen sense of literary dialogue pulls into the orbit of his study an international corpus of work, from Dostoyevsky to Malcolm X. Jail Sentences arrives at a coherent definition of the genre, whose unique conventions stem from the innermost regions of our understanding of stories, truth, fiction, and belief."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.