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Plot Summary. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number is a non-fiction memoir published in 1981 by the Soviet-born Argentine author Jacobo Timerman. It details Timerman's torture and imprisonment at the hands of Argentine military police serving under the far-right dictator Jorge Rafael Videla from 1977 to 1979.
OCLC. 1105278409. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number ( Spanish: Preso Sin Nombre, Celda Sin Numero) is a 1981 memoir by the left-wing Argentine journalist and publisher Jacobo Timerman, who was imprisoned without charge during the Dirty War in Argentina in April 1977 and subsequently tortured. Though acquitted by a military court in ...
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Jan 1, 2001 · Author 61 books38 followers. January 20, 2024. Jacobo Timerman’s autobiographical book Prisoner without a name, Cell without a Number was published in 1980, its English translation released in 1981. Timerman was the editor of La Opinión, Argentina’s leading liberal newspaper.
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Nov 7, 2010 · Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number is a poignant and poetic memoir of Timerman's rapid descent from being a well-known public figure to a nameless and hidden victim of the 1976-1983 military junta's oppression, but also an exploration of the societal passivity that permits totalitarianism to take hold.
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number. "At two in the morning of April 15, 1977, twenty armed men in civilian clothes arrested Jacobo Timerman, editor and publisher of a leading Buenos Aires newspaper. Thus began thirty months of imprisonment, torture, and anti-Semitic abuse. . . . Unlike 15,000 other Argentines, 'the disappeared ...
Sep 1, 1981 · Fall 1981 Published on September 1, 1981. The whirlwind of contention surrounding this little book should not obscure its merits and its defects. As a lyric exercise and an expression of moral outrage, it is eloquent, even exquisite; as a polemic or philippic it is deeply flawed, ambiguous and deceptive. Under the spell of literary skill, the ...
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number Jacobo Timerman With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans Translated by Toby Talbot, with a new foreword by Arthur Miller The Americas Ilan Stavans and Irene Vilar, Series Editors “One of the most poignant testimonies ever written by a political prisoner. . . .
