This paper aims to investigate the relationship between Giorgio Manganelli’s writing and images, through a direct comparison with some of his writings dedicated to the visual arts. Acknowledging that the metaphysical structure of the Discorso dell’ombra e dello stemma is underlying Manganelli’s thought and not only his theoretical conception of literature, it is observed that at the centre of the author’s and the reader’s attention, in relation to writing, there is not the single image produced or reproduced, but the mental image, plural and always mutable, phantasmic and numinous. Manganelli’s writings on the arts are therefore not simply to be considered as ecphrastic proofs, but as literary inventions that bring and return the images of art and personal experience, through the pseudo-theological itinerary traced by the author, to their nature as mental images.
Il presente contributo intende indagare il rapporto tra la scrittura di Giorgio Manganelli e le immagini, attraverso un confronto diretto con alcuni suoi scritti dedicati alle arti visive. Riconoscendo che la struttura metafisica del Discorso dell’ombra e dello stemma è soggiacente al pensiero manganelliano e non solo alla sua concezione teorica della letteratura, si osserva che, al centro dell’attenzione dell’autore e del lettore, in rapporto alla scrittura non c’è la singola immagine prodotta o riprodotta, ma l’immagine mentale, plurale e perennemente mutevole, fantasmatica e numinosa. Gli scritti sulle arti di Manganelli non saranno, dunque, semplicemente da considerare prove ecfrastiche, ma invenzioni letterarie che portano e riportano le immagini dell’arte e dell’esperienza personale, attraverso l’itinerario pseudoteologico tracciato dall’autore, alla loro natura di immagini mentali.
Uno «stordimento allucinato»: immagini e parole in Giorgio Manganelli
Michele Felice
2025-01-01
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the relationship between Giorgio Manganelli’s writing and images, through a direct comparison with some of his writings dedicated to the visual arts. Acknowledging that the metaphysical structure of the Discorso dell’ombra e dello stemma is underlying Manganelli’s thought and not only his theoretical conception of literature, it is observed that at the centre of the author’s and the reader’s attention, in relation to writing, there is not the single image produced or reproduced, but the mental image, plural and always mutable, phantasmic and numinous. Manganelli’s writings on the arts are therefore not simply to be considered as ecphrastic proofs, but as literary inventions that bring and return the images of art and personal experience, through the pseudo-theological itinerary traced by the author, to their nature as mental images.I documenti in ARCA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.