Solitary Confinement and the Exercise of Freedom - 3 Quarks Daily

Solitary Confinement and the Exercise of Freedom - 3 Quarks Daily

by Scott Samuelson The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. —Blaise Pascal In its “Recovered Books Series,” Boiler House Press has just republished Christopher Burney’s Solitary Confinement, originally released in 1951, a profound, steely, and even sometimes funny account of the five-hundred and twenty-six days the author spent in a Nazi prison cell during World War II. Ted Gioia, who’s writte…