Per una voce sola. Intertestualità e intermedialità nella scrittura di Michele Mar

The aim of this paper is to compare three recent republications of Michele Mari’s works, Di bestia in bestia (1989 Longanesi and 2013 Einaudi), Asterusher. Autobiografia per feticci (2015 and 2019 Corraini edizioni) and Leggenda privata (2017 Einaudi),which all show consistent changes. The intention is precisely to point out the reciprocal relationships between these works and the different ways they have been transformed, both in the cases of literary writing alone and in those involving phototextual forms, in order to trace a possible unity of intent. In Di bestia in bestia Mari chooses to thin out the novel ; in the second case to increase the number of pages of the phototext, and in the last example to give a double version of the autobiographical story, whose very first version contained no photographic images. Based on the paratextual and metatextual indications, the intertextual and intermediate relations traced in the three case studies serve to support the evolution of a unitary process of individuation and a continuous experimentation with new forms to narrate an autobiographical core.