Autobiogrammatica
Presentation of the book by Tommaso Giartosio in conversation with Luca Starita
A finalist for the Strega Prize 2024 and published by Minimum Fax, Autobiogrammatica by Tommaso Giartosio is a surprising and dizzying game: the story of a life as common and unique as the story of a language.
There is a sinuous link that intertwines the learning of the alphabet, names, family vocabulary, slur, and foreign languages with the awareness of their meanings. Language is also the bearer and generator of the gender dynamics that have influenced the evolution of Italian society in recent decades. Language is thus the origin of consciousness and the world, the genealogy of affects, identity and disidentity, a filter for the gaze, the only possibility of making sense of what we have experienced.
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Tommaso Giartosio (1963) has published, in addition to several volumes of essays, the memoirs Doppio ritratto (Fazi 1998, Bagutta Opera Prima Award), L’O di Roma (Laterza 2012), and Tutto quello che non abbiamo visto. Un viaggio in Eritrea (Einaudi 2023) and the collection of poems Come sarei felice. Storia con padre (Einaudi 2019, Premio Napoli). He is editor of Nuovi Argomenti and host of Fahrenheit on Radio 3.
Luca Starita lives in Florence where he works for the publishing house Giunti. He graduated in Italianistics with a thesis on queerness in Aldo Palazzeschi’s fiction, he is a writer, playwright and a specialist in Digital Humanities. In 2021 he published the essay Canone ambiguo. Of Italian Queer Literature and in 2023 Pensiero stupendo.
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