Of Prisons and Ideas

by Milovan Djilas(Harcourt Brace, 166 pp., $17.95)

LET'S START with the main idea, forlack of anything better. Milovan Djilas believes that man needs a main idea above all things, and that, I guess, is the main idea of Of Prisons and Ideas. Djilas has been in prison three times, and it was because of his devotion to his idea--of freedom--that he was able to withstand isolation and torture, plenty of it. He doesn't believe in absolute freedom, but he says ...