L’italomania di Giorgio Manganelli. Per una pseudoteologia della varietà e della complessità

This article aims to analyse a relatively neglected, yet important aspect of Giorgio Manganelli’s manifold production, that is his critical writings on Italian literature. After some reflections on what it means to be a literary critic and reviewer according to Manganelli, the author of the article attempts to demonstrate that Manganelli’s critical writings are a privileged field to observe his longing for literature as expression of variety and complexity, as a creation of an autonomous world open to every experience. Special attention is given to examine how Manganelli deals with the concepts of ‘oscurità’ (obscurity), ‘chiarezza’ (clarity) and ‘limpidezza’ (transparency).