La giustizia dalla terra e della vita in J. Steinbeck

John Steinbeck's work, especially the novel Grapes of Wrath, offers countless elements for reflection to the perspective of the lawyer interested in drawing from the narratives of great literature some illuminating glimpse on that idea of justice that is as essential to human beings as it is obscure and elusive. Criminal law in particular, also for its narrow, extreme. bond with the culture of a society, powerfully lends itself to challenging the sense of justice, especially where one can grasp, among its normative folds, that metaphorical aura that spreads far beyond its even more "technical" spheres. Many, for example, the meanings that can emanate from the so-called "Crimes against life" of which - in an expressively figurative sense - the Joad family is repeatedly victim and whose migration destiny is described in the novel. Events through which it represents itself as an exemplary witness of a justice that is such precisely as stubborn reaffirmation of life itself, despite all its denial; life depicted as a bond with the earth and, therefore, with a community of participants in solidarity with the human condition of suffering and exploitation .