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A perceptive and occasionally scathing commentary on institutionalized culture and social isolation, this novel centers on the prison world and, specifically, those tasked with operating and maintaining it
This includes men such as the veteran jailer Ferraras, who, through absences and dalliances on the margins of society, seeks to assert his independence, or Ferraras’ superior Sandoval, who has ambitious—if cynical and corrupt—plans for the prison; men who, however much they think of themselves as above or apart from the prison environment, are in fact themselves as captive to it as the men they are tasked with guarding. Ultimately, this is a portrait of the craving for power, of the inanity of the cultural institutions that this yearning engenders, and of the individuals who, however willingly or unwillingly, are consumed by it. Un comentario perspicaz y ocasionalmente cáustico de la cultura institucionalizada y el aislamiento social, esta novela se centra en el mundo de las prisiones y específicamente aquellos encargados con operar y mantenerlo. Esto incluye hombres como el carcelero veterano Ferraras, quien mediante ausencias y convivencias en el margen social busca demostrar su libertad, y su superior, Sandoval, quien tiene planes ambiciosos—por no decir cínicos y corruptos—para la prisión; hombres que, por más que se piensen por encima o aparte del entorno de la prisión, son tan prisioneros como los hombres que custodian. Éste es, al final, un relato mordaz del ansia de poder, de la inanidad de las instituciones culturales que crecen a su sombra y de aquellos individuos que, por más que quieran o no quieran, son consumidos por el.
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