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Genre/Form: | Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Lena Constante; Lena Constante; Lena Constante |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lena Constante |
ISBN: | 0520082095 9780520082090 |
Language Note: | Translation of: L'évasion silencieuse. |
OCLC Number: | 30318803 |
Notes: | Translation of: L'évasion silencieuse. |
Description: | xviii, 257 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part 1. January 1950-April 1954 -- First prison -- Second prison -- Third prison -- Fourth prison -- Part 2. Antecedents -- April-October 1948 -- Part 3. The penitentiary -- Dumbraveni -- The wall speak: Miercurea-Ciuc penitentiary. |
Series Title: | Societies and culture in East-Central Europe, 9. |
Other Titles: | Évasion silencieuse. |
Responsibility: | Lena Constante ; translation by Franklin Philip ; introd. by Gail Kligman. |
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"Constante has written a beautiful book about human endurance painfully learned; above all, it is a testament to the power of poetry to free the human spirit even when the physical body is suffering cold, hunger, and cruel degradation." * Women's Review of Books * "Constante's story vividly captures the prisoner's desperate struggle to hang onto her sanity and humanity and the remarkable victory when she and other women prisoners learned to communicate through "the language of the walls." A moving contribution to the literature of political imprisonment." * Booklist * "A powerful testament to the uncanny resilience of the human spirit. Constante relates in mesmerizing detail the eight years of solitary confinement that she suffered in Romanian prisons after being convicted in the Stalinist show trials of 1948. . . . It is rare for such an important historical document to be rendered with such profound artistic integrity." * Kirkus Reviews * "This is an important contribution to the literature of the Stalinist period in Eastern Europe, to prison narratives (joining the works of Arthur Koestler, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Evgenia Ginzburg), and to the literature of the human spirit. Highly recommended for all libraries." * Library Journal * "[An] expressive, desolate memoir . . ." * Publishers Weekly * Read more...
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