La stanza di Giorgio Manganelli

Giorgio Manganelli’s aversion to the concept of the author was linked to a polymorphic and changing ideal of individuality, to a critique of the self, conceived as a stable, recognisable and representable structure. His philosophical ideas drove him to consider art as an impersonal process. Ernst Bernhardh, the Jungian psychoanalyst, had taught him that memory space can expand beyond memories of every individual, to understand different patterns of objects, for example the animal world, the plant world and the mineral world. Manganelli used writing to enter into this long repertoire of variations. One of his favourite images was that of a man transforming into an inkwell who wets the nib in himself in order to write things, thereby becoming these things.