The Politics of Cruelty An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment [Paperback]

It is, in the words of the noted Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, a passionate, heroic effort to fathom the nature of a phenomenon that all too often drains us emotionally and incapacitates us intellectually. Powerfully written, with passages of clear and deeply felt insight.A political, philosophical, historical, and aesthetic record of the best in the human spiritin luminous resistance to the worst of modern times.From one of the most influential figures of the last twenty yearsthe author of