Toward aMinorMichelstaedter

Thoughts and Perspectives on Carlo Michelstaedter

“…Michelstaedter makes us think of the character that today is Kafka: a Czech Jew -by extension, Austro-Hungarian-who wrote in German at the beginning of the last century. But the melting pot becomes even richer in Carlo (Benvegnù, 2016), where the experience of minor writing is given at every step. Not only because he published nothing but four small newspaper articles during his lifetime (one without his express consent), but also because he faces a double distance: he does not want to be a scholar, he does not want to be a common man.…”