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as a strategy intended to help the inmate turn an inward eye on himself, contemplate his acts, and self-correct. This is an almost religious view of incarceration, one akin to the model of a monk in its cell, left alone with himself and God and surrounded by a monastery, which, incidentally,
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from the book of Genesis. Further episodes depict violence in its socially more advanced, institutionalized forms, presenting in two consecutive sections the practice of incarceration from two different vantage points. According to an interview with Lyacos in
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Until the Victim Becomes Our Own explores the evolution of violence in a sequence of chapters each headed by a letter of the classical Latin alphabet. The first chapters deal with violence in the animal world and are followed by an episode reminiscent of
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Chapter O in Albanian translation appeared in Revista Letrare in 2022. Chapter G in English translation appeared in Mayday Magazine in March 2023, chapter D in
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chapter "L focuses on an inmate as part of the prison's general population, and M is a take on SHU, the segregation housing unit—
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by Ioram Melcer appeared in Alaxon magazine in September 2024.
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Index

Dimitris Lyacos
World Literature
Postmodernism
Z213: Exit
composite novel
Dimitris Lyacos
zeroth
Cain's murder of Abel
World Literature Today
solitary confinement
Erving Goffman
Image
Chicago Review
Hebrew



"From Until the Victim Becomes Our Own"
"Entangled narratives and dionysian frenzy: An interview with dimitris lyacos - 3:AM Magazine"
https://alaxon.co.il/reading/עד-שהקורבן-נעשה-שלנו/
"A World to Be Repaired: A Conversation with Dimitris Lyacos, by Toti O'Brien"
https://revistaletrare.com/derisa-viktima-te-behet-e-jona/
"An Excerpt from Until the Victim Becomes Our Own by Dimitris Lyacos, translated from the Greek by Andrew Barrett"
https://www.chicagoreview.org/excerpt-from-until-the-victim-becomes-our-own/
https://alaxon.co.il/reading/עד-שהקורבן-נעשה-שלנו/
Categories
2023 novels
Greek novels
Postmodern novels
Dystopian novels

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