Playing to work: Elvio E. Gandolfo and writing as a craftmanship

Abstract

Elvio E. Gandolfo's narrative makes work one of its essential nuclei, either because it insists on its representation or because it thinks of itself from the anachronistic point of view of craftsmanship. Untimely, craftsmanship establishes another regime of time: an autonomous time, a time of its own not subject to the time of the rest of the world. It is the temporality of the game, that experience of fascination and invention that escapes the logic of efficiency and productivity. Money, for its part, enters into Gandolfo's stories in a conflicting way: when work and play do not go hand in hand, that is, when an artisanal ethic is not manifested, work appears associated with lack and play with waste.