Cozzo Inana

"non ho deciso io per la mia nascità ma per renascere ho preso tutto in una mano" "One writes out of a need to communicate and to commune with others, to denounce that which gives pain and to share that which gives happiness. One writes against one's solitude and against the solitude of others. One assumes that literature transmits knowledge and affects the behavior and language of those who read... One writes, in reality, for the people whose luck or misfortune one identifies with— the hungry, the sleepless, the rebels, and the wretched of this earth— and the majority of them are illiterate. ... How can those of us who want to work for a literature that helps to make audible the voice of the voiceless function in the context of this reality? Can we make ourselves heard in the midst of a deaf-mute culture? The small freedom conceded to writers, is it not at times a proof of our failure? How far can we go? Whom can we reach? ... To awaken consciousness, to reveal identity— can literature claim a better