Lo Spazio della Scrittura: per un’estetica dell’esperienza letteraria

Abstract

In the article considerations on materiality of writing are linked to the dimension of space. Starting from an analysis of the material conditions of writing, the article considers textuality in its relationship and parallel to the process of geometrization of the world through cartographic spatial representations. Due to its own visual character, writing indicates a linearly extending practice of progressive appropriation of the world. Thus, a spatial dimension is already implicit in the media of literary representation. In the end, the scriptualization of reality is analyzed as an expression of a spatially-oriented understanding of the world starting from the Indovinello Veronese (8th - 9th century), Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo (1963 ) and Giorgio Manganelli’s Nuovo commento (1969).