Autore
Bartoli, Lorenzo

Titolo
Letteratura e carcere: una nota filologica
Periodico
Parolechiave
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 14 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 99 - Pagina finale: 110

The essay explores the centrality of prison as a literary and biographical space in modernity, starting from the traumatic experience of Fyodor Dostoevsky, who was sentenced to death and then pardoned on December 22, 1849, and subsequently deported to Siberia. This event, experienced as a threshold between life and death, became the founding matrix of Dostoevsky’s entire oeuvre, inaugurating a poetics of guilt, punishment, and redemption. The author draws a parallel between Dostoevsky’s prison experience and that of Dante Alighieri, who was also exiled and condemned, emphasizing how both transformed their legal cases into a form of autobiographical and literary writing that oscillates between confessed guilt and suffered infamy. In particular, the essay analyzes the episode of Count Ugolino in Dante’s Inferno as an archetype of prison fiction, where prison becomes a place of accusation and not just confession. This reflection is then extended to modern prison literature, starting with Anglo- Saxon cultural studies of the 1970s, in particular the studies of Bruce Franklin, which value the writing of prisoners as a form of political resistance and a voice for the marginalized. The critical discourse develops in dialogue with authors such as Gramsci, Wilde, and Primo Levi, and is part of the long tradition of exile and prison literature that has its roots in Boethius and finds its most complete modern expression in Dante and Dostoevsky. Through an analysis of the autobiographical, political, and philosophical dimensions of prison writing, the essay proposes a vision of prison as a place that generates thought, testimony, and polyphonic poetry.



SICI: 1122-5300(2025)14:2<99:LECUNF>2.0.ZU;2-S
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