NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

Departing from the short stories by Swiss author Robert Walser (1878-1956), who has also passed by several psychiatric internments between 1929 and 1956, and whose work became a definite influence in contemporary literature in German language, the participants rewrote their doubts and impressions about life, beauty, the share of reason and madness in each one's daily life... where the voices in our minds are dissonant but real, though disconnected from the arbitrary and unashamedly simplistic reality. Our history does not satisfy us, but our voices can only continue it in an almost monotonous silence, which only literature comes sometimes to disturb. There is nothing that divides us, since there is also nothing that gathers us. We are all similar, even though so different, and, in this insane challenge to make ourselves different, we go through our ephemeral existences. Let us hear other voices in all of us.