A escrita e o desvelamento da realidade vivida nos presídios brasileiros: uma leitura amorosa do livro Além das Grades, de Samuel Lourenço Filho

Abstract

This article aims to understand how the State treats the person deprived of liberty, from the point of view of a writer, who lived the deprivation of liberty for nine years. A dive into his acidic, sensitive and revealing writing about the time he was in prison. There was a critical reading of Além das Grades, chronicles by Samuel Lourenço Filho; which has a strong autobiographical trait. Throughout the work it was impossible not to relate the units through which the writer passed with the conditions lived by enslaved Africans in Brazil. Two clippings were created for reflection: to identify how the State treats the convict and how the author dealt with his feelings, while serving his sentence, having writing as an instrument of survival in an extremely racist, unfair and perverse system. The interlocutors of this research were bell hooks, due to his transgressive bias; Angela Davis and the obsolescence of prisons; Conceição Evaristo, for her writing; Paulo Freire, for hoping; Slavery I and II, by Laurentino Gomes; Michel Foucault; among others. The Brazilian prison system is racist, cruel and inefficient, in what should be its main job: to preserve the physical and emotional integrity of these subjects and promote their social (re)integration.