Literature written in prison.
>>7998242
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of paine,
My Crop of corne is but a field of tares,
And al my good is but vaine hope of gaine.
The day is past, and yet I saw no sunne,
And now I live, and now my life is done.
My tale was heard, and yet it was not told,
My fruite is falne, & yet my leaves are greene:
My youth is spent, and yet I am not old,
I saw the world, and yet I was not seene.
My thred is cut, and yet it is not spunne,
And now I live, and now my life is done.
I sought my death, and found it in my wombe,
I lookt for life, and saw it was a shade:
I trod the earth, and knew it was my Tombe,
And now I die, and now I was but made.
My glasse is full, and now my glasse is runne,
And now I live, and now my life is done.
Le Morte d'Arthur
Mallory had quite an interesting albeit only loosely chronicled life. He probably wrote Arthur in prison for a string of robberies, rapes, break-ins, theft, extortions etc. AFTER he was a member of parliament.
Lover of the Ursa Major by Sergiusz Piasecki
Cervantes, Wilde, Genet
For my Legionnaires -Codrenau
parts of The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Bertrand Russell loved prison, confirmed NEET
>>7998242
Fucking bitch, where's Don Quixote? The Tractatus was written when Wittgenstein was a POW, so it also counts.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
The draft of Being and Nothingness
Wtf why was bertie russell in jail?
>>7998887
He was in jail a few times I think. Spent a lot of time protesting. I believe he was jailed once when we has 80+
>>7998256
Fpbp
>>7998887
OP here, I'm starting that particular volume, which reminded me of this subject.
Russell was actively involved in pacifism during WWI, attending protests and disseminating antiwar literature. Since WWI was srs bsns, after all, and also because British society still had a set of stones on century ago, the state refused to tolerate Russell's actions, and had him locked up for six months.
I am not ashamed to admit that I was unaware of Don Quixote (being writtenin in prison) prior to making this thread. Although I hate looking at modern prisons on television (I always hate the MSNBC weekend shows and flick past them), prison seems to be a fertile ground for the creation of important/worthwhile lit. There's suffering, solitude, and you get left alone for long periods of time.
Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky suddenly come to mind, but I don't know that either one /actually wrote anything while actually imprisoned/, as opposed to using the life experience in work once free.
>>7998242
My diary desu.
>>7999224
what'd ja do
The Count of Monte Christo
>>7998242
Island of Lonely Men
by José León Sánchez
Infinite Jest was written while the author had depression, a prison of the mind more terrifying than any federal penitentiary.
The Pilgrim's Progress
>>7998811
>The Tractatus was written when Wittgenstein was a POW, so it also counts.
Well, some of it. He was treated extremely well during his time as a PoW. Was visited by fucking Russel multiple times.
Ezra Pound
>>7999303
If you knew anything about the meme you are propagating you would know he didnt write when depressed, he would just watch tv and eat junk food.
>>7999236
shitposting without a license
This counts
Can only think of political books, but since Hitler is in the OP I guess they fit
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Woodstock Nation by Abbie Hoffman
We are Everywhere by Jerry Rubin
I just bought an old book of short stories by Dosto, I think "The Peasant Marey" was written in prison, maybe some others.
Strange that De Profundis haven't been mentioned.
