Summary
Erri De Luca: The Word Against
The book "The Word Against" was conceived as a kind of essay about the court process the author had to go through because he fought against the construction of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway. This essay is completed with reflections on freedom of speech and the engagement of the writer in contemporary society. "There are such writers, and there are also such lives, which lead the reader and observer to the conclusion that they write what they live, even if they do not write about what they experienced. Erri De Luca, for example, is not a writer of the dominant autobiographical discourse. It could not be, because if he really wrote what he experienced, it would not be convincing," wrote Miljenko Jergović about this writer.
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