This thesis deals with prison literature from the point of view of genre characteristics in four novels: Tahar Ben Jelloun's This Blinding Absence of Light, Vitomil Zupanćs Levitan, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and Henri Charrière's Papillon. In the first part of the thesis I will present the historical background of each novel, because it plays a major role in the protagonist's incarceration. Since the main aim of my thesis is to determine the characteristics of prison literature, I will then focus on the categories that help us classify the aforementioned novels as prison literature.
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