| Writings from a Greek Prison: 32 Steps, or Correspondence from the House of the Dead Contributor(s): Theofilou, Tasos (Author), Morea, Ben (Preface by), Pappa, Eleni (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1942173121 ISBN-13: 9781942173120 Publisher: Common Notions OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Anarchism - Social Science | Penology - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 6.9" (0.25 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Even though I did not commit the offences for which I am accused, I am not innocent. I committed the one offense that includes all others. I am an anarchist. In the class war, I chose the side of the excluded and the underprivileged, the prosecuted and the accursed, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed. Writings from a Greek Prison is a literary work of biting realism. Tasos Theofilou gives testimony on the brutality of prison life, and its centrality in contemporary capitalism, through a blur of memoir, social commentary, free verse, and a glossary of the idiom used by inmates in Greek prisons. A political prisoner in Greece from 2012 to 2017, Theofilou's work centers on exposing the conditions of widespread exploitation and social struggle that persist in Greece as a result of the debt crisis--in prisons as well as in mainstream society. |
Contributor Bio(s): Theofilou, Tasos: - Tasos Theofilou is an anarchist-communist and a former political prisoner in Greece. He is the author of six books. Through speculative fiction, noir, and graphic novels, he illuminates the conditions of exploitation and social conflict in Greece. While in prison, Theofilou also authored a book on Attica as part of the international solidarity with the U.S. prisoners' strike on the forty-fifth anniversary of the prison uprising. |