“I am afraid. I am ashamed to say it. If I didn't say it, however, I would be even more ashamed. I am afraid because I have hope. Because, absurdly, I feel I still have something to lose.”
The text of this monologue comes from the novel by Maurizio Torchio, Cattivi, published by Einaudi in 2015.
As the author's second novel, it features a protagonist who is a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment and “forgotten” in the isolation cell of a prison-island.
A narrative that is at times lyrical, like when observing the prison-world from above or the stasis of time in isolation, and at times essential and simple like the resilient humanity of the protagonist.
Life before, life after, the moment of the crime that marks the entire existence, the nakedness of one’s guilt, the violence of the institution, and finally, also, a victim in a guilty person.
Poetry hides in the details of events, in the particulars where prison life gathers.
Text adaptation and interpretation by Tommaso Banfi, directed by Giuliana Musso.
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