Chapter Traduzioni, spiegazioni, commenti: testo e metatesto nella prosa di Meneghello

Abstract

Self-commentary plays a fundamental role in Meneghello’s work. It is part of an intrinsically autobiographical prose, where the individual dimension, constantly dropped into the collective one, is charged with a documentary function. The self-commentary adds considerations of a predominantly linguistic nature, aimed at providing the referent with the most precise and complete representation possible. These considerations are distributed on various levels: directly in the main text, in the endnotes, in the author’s prefaces and afterwords, but also outside the physical space of the individual volume. The contribution investigates the variety and complexity of this self-exegetic addition, highlighting its capacity to produce connections between different and distant textual places, even transcending the boundaries of the single work, with the enrichment of perspective that this entails.