Doing Time: Essays on Using People

by Kristian Vistrup Madsen

To write about someone else means both to expose and transform them. This is the dilemma of writing that Janet Malcolm describes as "morally indefensible." In Doing Time: Essays on Using People, Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael. Over several years, this spawns a series of reflections about the politics of solidarity and appropriation, but also about writing itself...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3981910842
• ISBN13: 9783981910841
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Floating Opera Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"