The room

It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room´ says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr.´s second novel. What follows is a startling series of recollections and fantasies that illuminate the workings of a prisoner´s unhinged mind. He yearns for his violent childhood, rages against obscure authorities, and imagines enacting horrible revenge on those who imprisoned him. The prisoner´s remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture. Disorienting, nightmarish and structurally inventive, "The Room" is a shocking examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other.