Gianmarco Pinciroli

Solitude and Writing. Misalignments of tragic in modernity

In how many different ways is it possible to describe writers’ solitude? This work takes into account some figures of varying relevance, such as Proust and Barthes, Broch and Bernhard, Celan and Walser, Levinas, Derrida and Agamben. These writers belong to a more or less recent modernity. They have different writing styles, which can vary from philosophical reflection to literary expression. They aim to combine the sense to the concepts of tragic, education and ethics. The conceptual link between solitude and writing, characterized by those themes, is a strong aspect of the modern world. But this idea does not exclude the fact that all contemporary or past writers are always alone. For this reason the Author does not make his analysis through an historical cataloguing. Instead he prefers to take into account some exemplary figures who, in their experience as writers, seem to better clarify that connection. The Author aims at maintaining the semantic richness of an underlying and quite secret “writing solitude”, which, just like a steel wire, supports the strangest acrobatics of contents. All these contents owe their foundation to this existential and essential destiny.

Gianmarco Pinciroli lives in Varese, where he worked as a secondary school philosophy and history teacher for many years. He has also collaborated with different cinema, philosophy, literature and music journals. He is member of Paideutika’s editorial staff. He published Segnità e comunicazione (Torino, 2002).

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