Tag Archives: reading in prison

How Proust Saved a Prisoner’s Soul

By Robin Bates | Published: May 17, 2023

In an intense search for meaning, prisoner Daniel Genis finally found it in Proust.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "To Alithea from Prison", Epictetus, Ice Age, In Search of Lost Time, Jean Paul Sartre, Marcel Proust, Margaret Drabble, meaning of life, No Exit, Richard Lovelace, Stoicism | Comments closed

Reading in Solitary Confinement

By Robin Bates | Published: May 15, 2023

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.

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Reading Lit to Cope with Prison

By Robin Bates | Published: May 10, 2023

In his book about reading lit in prison, Genis talks about how novels helped him understand fellow inmates and discover his own Jewishness.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 1Q84, Alan Moore, American Gods, Bohumil Hrabal, Daniel Genis, Franz Kafka, Good as Gold, Haruki Murakami, Herzog, Jaroslav Hasek, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Heller, Neil Gaiman, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Prison, Saul Bellow, Sentence, The Good Soldier Svejk | Comments closed