Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison

by Steven Shankman

In Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison, Steven Shankman reflects on his remarkable experience teaching texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Grossman, and Emmanuel Levinas in prison to a mix of university students and inmates. These persecuted writers--Shankman argues that Dostoevsky's and Levinas's experiences of incarceration were formative--describe ethical obligation as an experience of being turned inside out by the face-to-face...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810134918
• ISBN13: 9780810134911
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"