Camp Concentration

184 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1999 by Vintage Books.

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5 stars (2 reviews)

5 editions

Sure is dark and dense.

5 stars

It's full of indirect speaking and allusion, from the perspective of a character who knows he's being watched but also has a split personality but also is an intellectual striver… and all this with a bitter, just-post–WW2 nuclear sort of despair. Took almost as long to read as it did to follow up on all the semi/un-familiar stuff Disch drops in there.

Subjects

  • Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction
  • Biology, Experimental -- Fiction
  • Political prisoners -- Fiction
  • Pacifists -- Fiction