The crossing: between the small and the large prison

Abstract

This text is a review of the book A pequena prisão by Igor Mendes. The author, who experienced life in the Rio de Janeiro prison system for seven difficult months, through simple writing, brought the polyphonic narrative woven by so many voices silenced by the machinery of this system. By placing literature in the trenches of the abolitionist struggle, it is possible to move in the opposite direction to the naturalization of prison and all its fundamental irrational apparatuses.