Narration as self-care: Simona Vinci gives voice to fear. A pedagogical journey within literature
Simona Perfetti
The reflection that we want to bring forward in these pages is a sort of educational journey that arises from the merging between literature and pedagogy and that unfolds through the literary and life experience of Simona Vinci, Campiello 2016 award with La Prima Verità, in which gives voice to the madness and the prisoners of the island of Leros. In the following book, Parla mia paura she gives to the reader her own demons, demons that, as the writer herself says, they never sleep but with whom, perhaps, it is possible to find in the course of life a (precarious) balance of coexistence. Vinci, reconciling depression and sadness, managed to mitigate her own subjectivity, turning it into altruism of the soul. And if telling oneself becomes a survival exercise, care for life and art of existence, when autobiographical thought, as Duccio Demetrio claims, finally opens up to the other, in some way this thought begins to take care of us because the story becomes also a form of liberation and reconciliation. The autobiographical story of Vinci gives us the idea of how both significant it is to grow by embracing the becoming of the form as an essential dimension of existence, and how it becomes increasingly urgent, in the context of a life project, the need to abandon all the past certainties to venture into life. Thus, from her biography emerges the vital importance of making difference the basis of a true upgrowing in life.
Keywords
Cure, communication, existential planning, difference, autobiographical thought.