Writing Instead of Living

Here I will talk about the different meanings of writing for a life prisoner and focus on the place of literature in the context of prison, which is the very site of repression and systematic deprivation. I will argue that writing and literature are a profoundly strong resistance and cure against the policies of deprivation of their past and violation of the right to live in the present to which political prisoners are systematically subjected in the context of prison, especially in the form of life imprisonment.