 The novel encompasses a large-scale panorama, centering on the oppression of free thinking and involves wicked and conspiratorial plots against a young intellectual which results in his arrest and conviction to 12 years’ imprisonment for what he writes in secrecy against the dictatorship.Under some extraordinary circumstances he commits a crime by killing an inmate, and after having been squeezed severely under tons of massive mineral chops in the underground gallery where he works like a slave, he goes insane, with moments of clarity and turbulence, and when he is clear, he shows a keen sense of realism and a high potential for in-depth analysis.In prison and after the release from it, he continues to write essays of a liberal democratic spirit.