Narrazioni giuridiche nei mondi di Alice: la dimensione del possibile

Aim of this essay is to focus on possible links between Law and Literature, using two novels by Lewis Carroll: Alice in the Wonderland e Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found there. Analyzing the legal experiences made by Alice in the two novels I will assume that Law and Literature can be compared as worlds of the possible. In fact both Literature and Law represent a dimension of the possibility. In Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found there Alice wants to become Queen and her desire is possible through the law that she experiences as a social practice. On the contrary in Alice in the Wonderland the irrational law that comes from the Hearths Queen is refused by Alice: through this kind of law, prescriptive and sanctioning, it is not possible to realize her wishes. To say that law is possible means to assume that law is a social practice that Literature can narrate, exploring this dimension of possibility. As characters of novel, men can experience a kind of law whose contents are determined not only by rules and sanctions, in a law-positive way, but also by social and cultural representations, instances, opinions, ideas and, actions. I romanzi di Lewis Carroll aventi per protagonista la giovane Alice costituiscono un felice accostamento del diritto e della letteratura. Saranno esplorate alcune tematiche giuridiche concernenti il processo all'interno dei romanzi di Carroll per la sperimentazione di un nuovo diritto che, al pari della dimensione onirica, diventa "possibilità" di realizzazione di istanze e desideri.