Performance

A perceptive and occasionally scathing commentary on institutionalized culture and social isolation, this novel centers on the prison world and, specifically, those tasked with operating and maintaining it. This includes men such as the veteran jailer Ferraras, who, through absences and dalliances on the margins of society, seeks to assert his independence, or Ferraras��superior Sandoval, who has ambitious?if cynical and corrupt?plans for the prison; men who, however much they think of themselves as above or apart from the prison environment, are in fact themselves as captive to it as the men they are tasked with guarding. Ultimately, this is a portrait of the craving for power, of the inanity of the cultural institutions that this yearning engenders, and of the individuals who, however willingly or unwillingly, are consumed by it.

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Un comentario perspicaz y ocasionalmente c獺ustico de la cultura institucionalizada y el aislamiento social, esta novela se centra en el mundo de las prisiones y espec穩ficamente aquellos encargados con operar y mantenerlo. Esto incluye hombres como el carcelero veterano Ferraras, quien mediante ausencias y convivencias en el margen social busca demostrar su libertad, y su superior, Sandoval, quien tiene planes ambiciosos?por no decir c穩nicos y corruptos?para la prisi籀n; hombres que, por m獺s que se piensen por encima o aparte del entorno de la prisi籀n, son tan prisioneros como los hombres que custodian. �ste es, al final, un relato mordaz del ansia de poder, de la inanidad de las instituciones culturales que crecen a su sombra y de aquellos individuos que, por m獺s que quieran o no quieran, son consumidos por el.