emprisoned," finding himself suffering "wretchednesse" rather than power.
It is based on the anxiety to be
emprisoned in our past.
This pen name finds an echo not only in the name of the
emprisoned writer in Makine's play but also in the message that the play shares with Makine's four other still not translated novels written under that second pen name before and after it.
Arnold Daghani (1909-1985) was a German-speaking Jew living in Romania who was
emprisoned in the Mikhailowka labor camp upon the invasion of the Nazis.
The Durassian persona has totally merged her own identity with that of her
emprisoned husband, whom she continually imagines as dying or dead.