A Bad Man | Literary Precedents
A Bad Man can be located within a long and distinguished tradition of prison literature. Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment (1866) and Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) studied the effects of incarceration on a criminal, and in each the process of suffering has been a movement toward self-discovery. More directly, A Bad Man can be situated in the recent tradition of existentialist prison literature, especially Franz Kafka's The Trial (1925) and Albert Camus's The Stranger (1942), books in which the hero is imprisoned for something he does not...
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