We received a banner donated by prisoners from Unit 5 of Victoria, Entre Ríos with a hopeful message.
About the banner that comes from the prisoners who are in unit 5, there appears a phrase accompanied by the image of a book from which birds come out, and that we received as a gift in Liberté. Claudia Perlo, CONICET researcher, who visited us a few hours ago manages to define it as very beautiful and cites that it has been made by the Unit 5 artist, Alejandro Riquelme, known as Ricky.
The phrase that appears on the banner is from Marcel Prevost, "The lucky find of a book can change the destiny of a soul" and Perlo said, I would love it to be mine but it is not and adds that the same phrase is engraved on a wood found in unit number 5, located in Victoria, province of Entre Ríos, is a phrase that I really love, it touches my heart, because this has happened to me, it has happened to me that there are books that have changed me life.
It may seem like a lot, but after that book there was a before and after in something in my life, in some attitude, so I really encourage young people and people in general to let themselves be captivated by a book, if when you start reading it you find that it is not interesting, leave it, there is no obligation to finish reading a book, but to search because there is a book that is looking for you.
She says that each book brings a message from the authors, I also say it as an author, she indicates and continues expressing, because I also write books, I write for some people in particular, but later it has nothing to do with that reader that I imagined, and sometimes they write to me in the chat, by mail, for example: “Claudia I read yours and this allowed me to realize that…”, and well, this for an author is all gratification, knowing that one can arrive with a message.
Writing has the possibility of letting us transcend, and of communicating to an infinite universe, that one never knows who is going to find one's writing, and I am convinced that whoever comes across writing that makes sense to them, that writing was looking for it for a long time and affirms that he loves it.
That's why when I go to libraries I encourage people who, as I would do at this very moment, and goes to a shelf with books and takes out one of them at random in the Liberté library, and wonders what the book means to him. author, what message do you want to leave, mentions that he loves to play with chance and somehow with magic, life is magic, he remarks, continues saying, and reading is magic, you have to read, read and read.
I visit many institutions, not only prisons, schools, neighborhood centers, cultural centers, universities and many times I find that "books are also imprisoned". They are found in large, glass-enclosed libraries with padlocks. For me to see a book in this condition is terrible. Books have been available to readers in many libraries around the world for some time now. For this I congratulate the liberté library that has “free books”.
In unit 5 we are building the library, since the same legislation of the execution of the sentence and also the Mandela rules, indicate that every prison must have a library. In the Industry area, shelves are being built to store the books that have been received as donations since last year. It is my dream that all the corridors of the unit be a library and that the books are free for people to reach. Free reading, for this the books must be available, just as they are in the Liberté Library.
Source: Liberté cooperative