In an intense search for meaning, prisoner Daniel Genis finally found it in Proust.
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How Proust Saved a Prisoner’s Soul
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Reading in Solitary Confinement
Reporting on reading in prison, Genis reports that lit helped him cope with solitary confinement but didn’t always help him understand his fellow inmates.
Reading Lit to Cope with Prison
In his book about reading lit in prison, Genis talks about how novels helped him understand fellow inmates and discover his own Jewishness.
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