Autoritratto nello studio
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Here, the title Self-portrait in the studio – a familiar iconographic subject in the history of painting should be understood literally: the book is a self-portrait that can only be deciphered by the reader through a patient scrutiny of the images, photographs, objects, and paintings that belong to the studios in which the author has worked and is still working. Agamben’s challenge is to talk about himself by talking only about others: poets, philosophers, painters, musicians, friends and passions – the encounters and conflicts that have formed and nurtured him and that still contribute in various ways and measures to his own writing. From Heidegger to Elsa Morante, from Melville to Walter Benjamin, from Caproni to Giovanni Urbani. Pictures are an integral part of this book and like in those puzzles where various figures juxtaposed to one another compose a different and larger image, here pictures merge with the text in one of the most exceptional self-portraits that an author has ever left of himself: not a lengthy autobiography, but a faithful and timeless autoeterography.
Publishing house:
Nottetempo
Year of publication: 2017
Published in: Milano
Number of pages: 136
Price: 20 euro
ISBN: 9788874526673
Foreign rights manager: Maria Leonardi
Premi: Nel 2018 ha ricevuto il Premio Nonino "Maestro del nostro tempo".
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben (Rome, 1942) is a philosopher. His wide body of work has been translated worldwide. His recent works include: Nudità (2011), Categorie italiane (2010), and Opus Dei (2012)
Profanazioni (2005), Nudità (2009) Pilato e Gesú (2013), Il fuoco e il racconto (2014), L’avventura (2015) e Pulcinella (2016).
