Laboratorio: esta empecinada flor o del fare libri per sentirci vivi

Excursus on the varied forms of literary representation of imprisonment in Latin America. We will start with the reflections of thinkers and intellectuals such as the Europeans Foucault and Frankl and the Argentinean Sarlo, and then consciously tackle the analytical and translation experience of three textual typologies: the nineteenth-century testimony of the Cuban José Martí but also of a contemporary writer, the militant and twentieth-century poetry of the Salvadoran Roque Dalton, and the rewriting, in recent years, of a story by Jorge Luis Borges by an Argentinean common prisoner.
As part of the workshop, the students, according to their skills and inclinations, will be able to experience the creative and curative experience of hand-wrapping a book in a prison context. They will therefore rely on an existing prison series project - IL BRIGANTINO DI BOLLATE - for the handmade binding and cover. It should be noted, therefore, that some meetings may take place inside the IV Ward of the prison institute. On the occasion of Bookcity and at the conclusion of the workshop activities, the students will be able to participate as protagonists in the presentation of their books.