Writing in Order Not to Die: Testimony and Writing in the Work of Carlos Liscano

The following text analyses part of the testimonial work of the uruguayan writer Carlos Liscano, trying to elucidate the bond between prison writing and a process of particular subjectivation. I am interested in showing the way in which, in the prison writing, the word has the power to subvert the abstract prison life, as well as to make up, through a fiction exercise, the prisoner's own self. Writing thus evolves into a fictionalized enunciation site, which produces an undeniable reality effect: surviving.