From an interview with Panella published in "La Repubblica" the day after the release of C.S.A.R.:
"Yes, the famous story of communication, the more you communicate, the less clear you are. You can be educational, certainly, you can be didactic, illustrative, simple, but absolutely in bad faith, and I'm talking about that ridiculous simplicity that many speak of, from politicians downwards, even in literature.
They stand there defending this expositional simplicity, bringing out the usual story that those who speak obscurely do so for their own caste; but obscure what, obscure which, since one could say that there isn't even speaking in me, there isn't even the act of speaking, I am prior to clarity, let alone obscure, I don’t even pose the problem of clarity, I am pre-clear."
or again, from "L'apparenza":
"The words already present themselves as double, they are inherently double in meaning, it's just that when I use them, they evidently experience a awakening, they enter into a purity, and someone says: - I heard that word, it must mean at least six things-, and maybe it’s one of the first and last times they hear it. I take away every possibility for the word to be literally unambiguous, I don’t want it to be unambiguous, because generally it is habit that determines the literary sense of the word. In speaking, you can play with words, but in writing much less."
