[The dual condemnation of Gramsci. A tentative biographical interpretation]

This study proposes a "biographical" approach using a particular heuristic method. The structure of an important and significant letter written by Gramsci while in prison is analysed in this light. This interpretation leads us to the conclusion that, at the time of writing, Gramsci was in full possession of all his mental faculties, although worried by his long imprisonment and smitten by a profound disillusion as a result of the deformation of the "socialist" system. The victim of a "dual seclusion", he was not only able to make an exhaustive analysis of the situation, but in a certain sense he also succeeded in predicting the tragic events which were taking shape on the historical-political horizon of the world to which he belonged.