Room. Selby-Ml. Hubert

Here everything is subordinated to a hard routine, but the time is as if it is smeared on gray official walls. There is nothing to do, except to recall and re -worry the events of your past life left behind the door. It’s very scary here, because you are left alone with the person you hate - with yourself...

the room (1971), the second novel by Hubert Selby, was not appreciated by critics. The author himself claimed that this book is the most painful of what he has ever written and admitted that for two decades he could not force himself to re-read it. However, time all set up in places, and new reviews of the “prison novel” gave their due to the author.