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.