Little Old Grandfather
Thomas Meaney: Djilas and Stalin, 19 May 2016
Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas, translated by Michael Petrovich.
Penguin, 160 pp., £9.99, January 2014,978 0 14 139309 4 Show More
by Milovan Djilas, translated by Michael Petrovich.
Penguin, 160 pp., £9.99, January 2014,
“... idea. Although the political criminal imprisoned for an idea, like the common criminal suffers and burns because of sensual deprivation, he burns from his idea as well. Yet the political prisoner has an advantage, however, doubly inflamed. While burning for or in an idea neither banishes nor mitigates other passions, it ... ”