«Ricominciare sempre da capo». Giovanni Testori scrittore plurale
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Testori, anti-modernism, apocalypse, architecture, Milan, Italian contemporary poetry, visual arts, dialects, philology, fragments, mountains, novel, novelisation, polemicist, populism, syntax, experimentalism, Lombard tradition, queer theory, urbanizationSynopsis
The figure of Giovanni Testori (1923-1993), a hundred years after his birth and thirty years after his death, seems to be experiencing a “second youth.” Today, Testori is one of the most vibrant literary authors. This is due in part to the variety of literary genres in which he expressed his vehement artistic drive: among those who study him are art historians, scholars of fiction and poetry, linguists, theater critics, as well as directors and actors. But what keeps Testori’s presence alive above all is the quality of his work and the sense of wonder that so many of his texts continue to inspire in those who encounter them for the first time or have remained faithful to them for years. Innocent and visceral, Testori pushed far along the path marked out by the modern diktat of originality, understood not only as a stylistic a priori, but as a genuine existential urgency. What is explored here are the many forms of Testori’s expressive quest: not merely aesthetic, but grounded in the desire to forge an expressive instrument capable of transferring the tormented interiority of the self onto the page, ultimately reaching the paradoxical attempt to transcend the word as a linguistic sign, in order to arrive at a language understood as gesture, as body.
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Premessa
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«Far sì che la carne si rifaccia “verbo”». Echi longhiani ne Il dio di Roserio.
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Rocco e il Brianza
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Dall’archivio Feltrinelli: ricognizione intorno alla rassegna stampa de Il fabbricone
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Epica del casamento: architettura come catalizzatore di realtà nel Fabbricone
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Una Comédie humaine alla milanese: i Segreti di Milano e il teatro dell’esperienza
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Giovanni Testori e la Montagna: Geografie visuali e forme artistiche
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«La vita che genera, la carne che vive». La passione poetica di Testori da I Trionfi a Nel Tuo sangue (1965-1973)
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Il «verme», l’«osso magro e lucente». Una lettura metapoetica di Ossa mea
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Le teste di Giovanni. Metafore ossessive e antisocialità queer
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«L’atrocio benefizio»: cartolina sul Macbetto
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La maestà della vita: Testori polemista (1977-1982)
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“Gli angeli dello sterminio”: solo di frammenti si tratta
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