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“The Seasons in Angry Harvest Changed as They Do in Our Lives:” Novels Written in Cells as Resources for Prison Survival Strategies

Summary/Abstract: Between 1949 and 1954, Polish journalist Stanisław Mierzeński and American architectHermann Field shared a cell in a Stalinist prison. In that period, they wrote together twonovels, which appeared in print in the late 1950s. Fiction is rarely used as an informationsource about recent history, but the case is different in terms of prison history. Formerprisoners are reluctant to share their experiences, so every page written by their handis meaningful. Ambiguous and related to the senses, the literary form often reveals thehidden. In this article, I use the findings of prison sociology to analyze novels in terms ofreferences to social relations and universal strategies for surviving the prison experience.

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