«Marchesi was a bank, Walter was the flood […] Walter danced on words as they were shoes. Marchesi worked with words like a cobbler». Tatti Sanguineti’s memory represents an interesting starting point for reflections on Walter Chiari and Marcello Marchesi’s autobiographies. Chiari’s autobiography Quando spunta la luna a Walterchiari. Semiromanzo quasi biografico (1974) and Marcello Marchesi’s Il Malloppo (1971), published in the same period, show in a clearly and exemplifying way the complex and somehow conflicting relationship between author and words. According to Marchesi, words are heavy and they weigh the human spirit down (the ‘malloppo’ is the weight that troubles the main character); on the contrary, according to Chiari words haven’t got a specific weight, they are light and weightless. Starting from the latest studies on ‘double talent’ and on the so-called ‘divagrafie’, this paper focuses on Chiari and Marchesi’s autobiographies and on their peculiar way of ‘writing the self’.

«I diari pesano. Ricordare invecchia». Le autobiografie di Walter Chiari e Marcello Marchesi.

Muggeo
2020-01-01

Abstract

«Marchesi was a bank, Walter was the flood […] Walter danced on words as they were shoes. Marchesi worked with words like a cobbler». Tatti Sanguineti’s memory represents an interesting starting point for reflections on Walter Chiari and Marcello Marchesi’s autobiographies. Chiari’s autobiography Quando spunta la luna a Walterchiari. Semiromanzo quasi biografico (1974) and Marcello Marchesi’s Il Malloppo (1971), published in the same period, show in a clearly and exemplifying way the complex and somehow conflicting relationship between author and words. According to Marchesi, words are heavy and they weigh the human spirit down (the ‘malloppo’ is the weight that troubles the main character); on the contrary, according to Chiari words haven’t got a specific weight, they are light and weightless. Starting from the latest studies on ‘double talent’ and on the so-called ‘divagrafie’, this paper focuses on Chiari and Marchesi’s autobiographies and on their peculiar way of ‘writing the self’.
2020
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http://www.arabeschi.it/muggeo-i-diari-pesano/
Intermedialità, autobiografia, Walter Chiari, doppio talento, Marcello Marchesi
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