Write and Fight (Pismak)

One of Has’s most potent satires, Write and Fight is set at the outset of World War I and follows a young journalist who finds himself incarcerated in a Russian prison, where he’s forced to share a cell with a safecracker and a monk-turned-murderer while the authorities investigate their respective cases. The journalist starts taking notes on his present plight with an eye toward publishing a book down the road, but when he contracts typhoid fever, the partition between reality and fantasy slowly begins to crumble and a powerful delirium takes hold….