L’antropopoiesi carceraria di Borislav Pekić e il suo Giuda personale

Abstract

In this paper the first volume of the triptych Godine koje su pojeli skakavci (Years devoured by locusts, Belgrade 1987, 1989, 1990) by the Yugoslav writer Borislav Pekić (1930-1992) is analysed. The three volumes in question are the memoirs of the writer’s time in prison after his arrest in 1949. Pekić served his sentence in the Sremska Mitrovica and Niš district houses. The work starts from the personal story of the author, who then proceeds to transform his story into a prison anthropopoiesis, with a universal vision that has the effect of a warning for all authoritarian regimes that rely on imprisonment to retain their power