Post by account_disabled on Dec 9, 2023 22:50:44 GMT -5
The narrator is like someone working on a mosaic: the page is nothing more than a tile, a particle of the whole; and only when he has reached the word "end" will he be able to judge what he has done and feel satisfied with it. I don't believe that the narrative work is simple "literature", as it would inevitably be according to Croce: it could well be poetry. But it requires not only poetic qualities, but different moral ones: tenacity above all. And other intellectual abilities: a prospective and I would say panoramic sense of the work; the art of proportioning the parts to the whole, of seeing them "in function" of the whole.
Diary of Guido Morselli, 7 July 1946 This quote is taken from Guido Morselli's Diary , a work that unfortunately has not been published in its entirety. In reality, there is no Morselli diary, but there are notebooks in which the writer wrote down everything, from his philosophical, political, religious reflections, to his Phone Number Data impressions of what he read, to notes on his novels. It is undoubtedly a varied, heterogeneous work, which leaves us with a well-defined picture of Morselli: that of a man who did not limit himself to writing, but went beyond, positioning himself as any writer must position himself, a philosopher. Let's go back to the quote. How much truth there is in what Morselli wrote! A work like a mosaic: when we write we cannot know our work in its entirety, because there is no entirety yet.
The last part of this reflection is in my opinion the most important: the writer must be able to see his work in perspective, he must observe it as if he were looking at a panorama, from above, embracing it entirely with his gaze. In every novel, in every story we write we must be able to establish the right proportions: every element of our work must be part of the whole, it must have its right function. The writer cannot become attached to passages, to chapters that have nothing to do with the great project of his work. A literary work, in my opinion, is like a tree: the dead branches, or those that sprout everywhere sucking energy from the entire plant, must be cut without hesitation.
Diary of Guido Morselli, 7 July 1946 This quote is taken from Guido Morselli's Diary , a work that unfortunately has not been published in its entirety. In reality, there is no Morselli diary, but there are notebooks in which the writer wrote down everything, from his philosophical, political, religious reflections, to his Phone Number Data impressions of what he read, to notes on his novels. It is undoubtedly a varied, heterogeneous work, which leaves us with a well-defined picture of Morselli: that of a man who did not limit himself to writing, but went beyond, positioning himself as any writer must position himself, a philosopher. Let's go back to the quote. How much truth there is in what Morselli wrote! A work like a mosaic: when we write we cannot know our work in its entirety, because there is no entirety yet.
The last part of this reflection is in my opinion the most important: the writer must be able to see his work in perspective, he must observe it as if he were looking at a panorama, from above, embracing it entirely with his gaze. In every novel, in every story we write we must be able to establish the right proportions: every element of our work must be part of the whole, it must have its right function. The writer cannot become attached to passages, to chapters that have nothing to do with the great project of his work. A literary work, in my opinion, is like a tree: the dead branches, or those that sprout everywhere sucking energy from the entire plant, must be cut without hesitation.
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