Volume 20, Number 5 · April 5, 1973
Franco and the Duchess
By John Black
My Prison
by the Duchess of Medina Sidonia
Harper & Row, 169 pp., $6.95
'Jail is a great teacher. Prison accentuates the evils of a system. In that closed world, directly subjected to state authority, the prisoner begins to understand principles that are not clear outside.' The Duchess of Medina Sidonia's comment on her eight months' incarceration as a political prisoner in Spanish jails sums up the merits of her book. Through it, as though in a photographic negative, we see many of the realities of contemporary Spain.
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