Word: celle
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...floor of the prison cell, the cockroach struggles frantically to escape its burning bed of straw. "Confess you're not a saint," shouts one convict hovering over the minuscule pyre, "or else the fire of heaven will consume your flesh amid hideous sufferings." Cries another: "Confess that the Prince of Evil has appeared to you and seduced you, but that you see the light and that repentance floods your heart." But the roach says nothing and goes up in flames. "She's damned. God forgive...
...four men cooped up in a single cell pass the time. They call their quaint little game The Torture of Joan of Arc, and it is a symptom of their terrible sense of guilt, which consumes them as the flames consume the roach. A preoccupation with guilt is nothing new for modern French novelists, but Jean Cau. 37, examines the meaning of guilt more exhaustively than even Camus or Sartre-though not always with their clarity. A controversial journalist as well as a novelist and playwright, Cau won the 1961 Prix Goncourt for The Mercy...
...overwhelmed by guilt that they cannot recall the actual crimes that landed them in prison. They cannot distinguish between the people they felt like murdering and those they actually did murder; they feel as guilty for their thoughts as for their deeds. In brooding conversations in their cell, they mull over the infinite possibilities of their guilt in the neorealist manner made familiar by Robbe-Grillet's Last Year at Marienbad...
Under the hood, the news is negative. The turbine engine, touted at last year's show as the wave of the future in power plants, is nowhere to be seen this year; its pickup and power problems seem a long way from solution. Studebaker's prototype fuel cell is still not ready for public exhibition. But on the standard engines, the car manufacturers have boosted horsepower on nearly every model...
...play, the picture ignores the rational arguments against capital punishment. It simply takes its audience inside an Irish prison and bolts the gate; and then with a world of Irish charm and humor shows everybody round the dear old place, shows everybody how it feels to live in a cell-and die on a rope...