Self Condemned, originally published in 1954, tells the story of Professor Ren? Harding and his wife, Essie, as they find themselves in Momaco, a fictionalized version of Toronto, following Ren?'s resignation as an academic in London, England. Reduced to a position at the second-rate University of Momaco, Ren? and Essie suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien city.
The novel, a devastating, disturbing satire of life in wartime Canada, explores the difficulty indi...