The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990

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Harold B. Segel
University of Pittsburgh Press
2012

For the first time, The Walls Behind the Curtain presents a collection of works from East European novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists who wrote during or after their captivity under communism. Harold B. Segel paints a backdrop of the political culture and prison and labor camp systems of each country, then offers biographical information on individual writers and presents excerpts of their writing.