



Metodico magro scapolo
The subject of the poster is Guido Morselli, an Italian writer born in 1912 who died by suicide 61 years later. The verbal climax meaning ‘methodical meagre bachelor’ is taken from the article ‘Where is everybody?’ by the writer Stela Xhunga.

Poster
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Subject
A verbal climax that succeeds in portraying in a single stroke a personality as complex, fragmentary and layered as that which transpires in the novels of Guido Morselli, an Italian writer out of the canon and for this reason more precious. Methodicality that becomes meagreness and emotional and relational isolation were experienced as a programme of life and work, with underneath, however, a neurotic state that can never be lacking in a good writer.
Morselli was subjected to endless editorial rejections during his life, but he never stopped and continued to do what he felt meant to do.
Today, he is being rediscovered by critics and the public alike because of themes and topics that are seen as ahead of their time. In ‘Dissipatio HG’ he recounts a world from which all but one human being has disappeared. In ‘Rome without the Pope’ he recounts a Vatican without its leader. In ‘Contro-passato prossimo’ he rewrites a piece of Italian history.