The power of words: Literature and art as magnets for transformation among young people at risk of social exclusion

Abstract

Words are air and foam, and yet they are heavy to the point of marking out destinies, changing directions and building realities; with them we fly and fall, terrible sentences and liberating proclamations depend on their combination, and we live in them from the first babbles to the last death rattle. Certainly, as Heideggeres maintained, language is the house of being.