«Un gesto all’altezza della mia essenza». Sullo scrivere come pratica politica di pensiero a partire da Il corpo delle pagine. Scrittura e vita in Carla Lonzi

This article reads Carla Lonzi’s writing and the recent study Il corpo delle pagine. Scrittura e vita in Carla Lonzi (Bertelli & Equi Pierazzini, 2024) as a politically charged practice of thinking. The core argument is that writing functions as an epistemic and political gesture by which women refound themselves as speaking subjects, forging new symbolic orders. Poetry loosens canonical semantic associations and allows experimentation; the ‘demonic’ prose introduces subtle displacements that infiltrate the hegemonic discourse while remaining accessible. Tracing Lonzi’s trajectory from childhood diaries and early poetry to collective autocoscienza with Rivolta Femminile and later prose (e.g., Taci, anzi parla), the article emphasizes the continuity between personal experience and political form. Lonzi’s work exemplifies a ‘metonymic’ mode of writing that reveals the network of relations producing thought. By contrast, ‘male culture’ absorbs women’s innovations without acknowledging its debt. Lonzi’s remedy is a politics of non-appropriable, dialogic authorship that keeps the relational tissue of creation visible. To honour this ‘inheritance without a testament’ and Lonzi’s relational politics, the author closes the essay with two conversational fragments with Bertelli and Equi Pierazzini. In doing so, she practices the very relationality Lonzi described.