La narrativa come atto di riparazione: la giustizia poetica in Isabel Allende. Spunti per una riflessione in tema di ‘restorative mysticism’
Narrative as an act of reparation: poetic justice in Isabel Allende. Reflections on 'restorative mysticism'

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to demonstrate that the connection between restorative justice and literature is anything but weak or self-evident, through the study of the works of Isabel Allende, one of the most authoritative voices in contemporary Latin American fiction. A witness to political and social revolution in her country, Allende is recognized as a narrator of the margins, of invisible women, and of the exiled. In her novels, storytelling takes the form of a restorative ritual, capable of fostering the healing of collective wounds and intergenerational reconciliation. The goal of this study is to show how the perspective theorized by Howard Zehr regarding restorative justice can also be extended to the narrative dimension, taking shape as a form of restorative poetic justice, in which the literary word becomes a space for memory, rebuilding, and renewal.

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