Revueltas, José (1914-1976)

The hole / José Revueltas - New York : A New Directions Paperbook , 2018, c1969 - 77 p. ; 19 cm

In a Mexican prison in the late 1960s, three inmates attempt to sneak in drugs under the noses of their apelike guards. The Hole is a prison inside a prison and an ominous parable about deformed and wretched institutuions creating even more deformed and wretched individuals. A classic of twentieth-century Mexican literatures, available for the first time in English.


Translated from the Spanish to English

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Prison life---Fiction
Drugs---Traffic---Fiction---Mexican


Mexico----Fiction

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