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Jailers, ferocious dogs, a circular square with a pile of stones in the center. And a “chant” that sounds incomprehensible, chilling. “Suddenly, it seems to me that I see the pattern. It is night. I think I am the only one still awake, chained to the trunk of a tree, like the others. The branches of the tree hide the sky.” Who could have written these words? The notebook that falls by chance into the hands of a provincial doctor is revealing. In Guatemala, deep in the tropical jungle, in an illegal concentration and labor camp, the “invention” of Dr. Pelcari is being violently tested on living bodies. The political prisoners held there endure horrific medical experiments, tortured under the cover of state power. The evocative novella Secret Prison by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, one of the author’s first substantial works of fiction, a text that also engages with Kafka’s In the Penal Colony, is a nightmarish parable of the modern fate of Central and Latin America, between language and silence, freedom and oppression, human dignity and tyranny, civilization and barbarism.
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kastanioti
- Type
- Prose
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- -
- Number of Pages
- 114
- Release Date
- 01/06/2026
- Publication Date
- 2026
- Dimensions
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9789600375299
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