Abstract
In considering the reality of the self under the pressure of extremity, three twentieth-century accounts of imprisonment and torture provide particular illumination. Although two of these works are nonfiction and one is famously fictional, the emphasis upon nonfiction works is not meant to suggest that they provide a richer portrait of the self in extremity than fiction does. A variety of short and long fictions, from Yukio Mishima's short story about ritual disembowelment, Patriotism, to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon (and George Orwell's 1984, the fiction I will examine briefly), disproves any such contention. Yet in Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy4 and Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number s one beholds two extraordinary documents
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