ABSTRACT
In Turin Edoardo Sanguineti had completed his education, witnessed Fascism and the war, lost his mother, married and seen the birth of three of his four children, written his first collections of poems, his two novels and his first theatrical pieces, and completed seminal studies on Dante, on language and ideology, on Moravia and on Gozzano. Between the months of February and July of 2004, Sanguineti granted a series of interviews to Antonio Gnoli, editor of the Arts and Culture section of La Repubblica. Their conversations were subsequently published by Gnoli in a volume peculiarly entitled Sanguineti's Song. His lessons were meant precisely to excite and stimulate students to learn, to prompt their minds to conceive, bear and give birth, embracing intellectual labour, no matter how painful. The way he employed language was perhaps the hallmark of Sanguineti's teaching style and philosophy, and of his work more in general: consistently challenging and seductive.
