The Silent Escape: Three Thousand Days in Romanian Prisons (Societies and Culture in East-Central Europe)
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 365.45092
EAN: 9780520082090
ISBN: 0520082095
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 257
Publication Date: 1995-04-07
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press
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"I have lived, alone, in a cell, 157,852,800 seconds of solitude and fear. Cause for screaming! They sentence me to live yet another 220,838,400 seconds! To live them or to die from them."from The Silent Escape Victim of Stalinist-era terror, Lena Constante was arrested on trumped- up charges of "espionage" and sentenced to twelve years in Romanian prisons. The Silent Escape is the extraordinary account of the first eight years of her incarcerationyears of solitary confinement during which she was tortured, starved, and daily humiliated. The only woman to have endured isolation so long in Romanian jails, Constante is also one of the few women political prisoners to have written about her ordeal. Unlike other more political prison diaries, this book draws us into the practical and emotional experiences of everyday prison life. Candidly, eloquently, Constante describes the physical and psychological abuses that were the common lot of communist-state political prisoners. She also recounts the particular humiliations she suffered as a woman, including that of male guards watching her in the bathroom. Constante survived by escaping into her mindand finally by discovering the "language of the walls," which enabled her to communicate with other female inmates. A powerful story of totalitarianism and human endurance, this work makes an important contribution to the literature of "prison notebooks."
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Summary: A powerful prison memoir!
Comment: This is the story of a Romanian artist, a young woman who spent eight years out of twelwe in solitary confinment, for the crime of having organized a puppet show together with the wife of a disgraced Communist leader. . . Despite all of that, Lena Constante never lost her dignity or pride. . . One of the most powerful prison memoirs ever written!
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