samedi 30 septembre 2017

The Top Seven Best Fictional Prison Book Published

By Debra Wood


Literature is an all encompassing form of writing and the arts that has touched on innumerable subject matters. Anything from science, philosophy, fine arts, religion, mathematics, medicine, and other topics has been transformed by gifted individuals into written or literary formats. A genre that has gained a cult following since its initial conceptualization is prison literature. It involves books written by people in jail or stories revolving around what happened in inside one.

It generally encompasses all books that were written by authors who were trapped in a jail cell or in house arrest during the time of writing. The contents of these books often range from the experience of living in such condition, or are based on actual events that took place in a similar setting. For more information regarding this, you will find a short list of great Fictional Prison Book ever written below.

Fyodor Dostoevsky is a well established author who is the leading founders of a movement called Realism. A popular work of fiction that he wrote that falls under this category is titled The House of the Dead. The story focuses on various convicts who are residing in a prison camp in Siberia. It contained many references to past events and actual facts, related to philosophy and politics.

A trending online streaming series is called Orange is the New Black, often shortened into OITNB. It recounts the experiences and musings of Piper Kerman who was imprisoned after facing trial. Her case revolved around drug trafficking and laundering money. The novel is actually a memoir by a woman of the same name.

Darkness at Noon is authored by Arthur Koestler, who is a Hungarian journalist. It was originally written in German but was translated into English following its success. The novel is considered his best work and the plot takes lace in nineteen thirty eight, at the height what is now called the Moscow show trials. It was obviously based on the events that transpired during that time, but does not name any specific places or people in it.

Alias Grace is a multi nominated and award winning novel written by Margaret Atwood. It was based on a real story about a man and his housekeeper named Nancy Montgomery who were killed by servants that worked for Thomas Kinnear. The partners were discovered with one being sentenced to life imprisonment, while the other was hanged after their trial.

Jack London wrote the novel titled The Star Rover, which is essentially a science fiction work but contains elements of prison genre as well. The story focuses on Darell, a professor who works at a University who is required to serve a life imprisonment sentence because he killed someone. The appointed officials then began to torture him by forcing him to wear a torture jacket that was so tight that it compressed his body painfully. To withstand this, he learns to force himself into an astral projection state to escape the pain he felt.

Jean Genet has a reputation for being an activist for politics and human rights. However, he was also a novelist who wrote many books and poems, including Our Lady of the Flowers. The prose itself is reminiscent of poetical prose and focuses on a character who resides in the undergrounds of a Parisian society. While he resides here, the encounters a bunch of people who are accustomed to such bleak lifestyles and most of them are homosexuals.

Memoirs from the Women Prison is by Nawal El Saadawi. It recounts the objectification and discrimination women experience during imprisonment. It focus on sexism forced upon them that made their time spent there twice as hard.




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