“That God gives us health!”: this is the alfa and the omega of the Dialogue on the health. From this invocation shares the proposal of a new portrait of Carlo Michelstaedter. Portrait that emerges from his sketches, from his paintings, from the poems, from the Epistolary and, then, from the Dialogue on the health. The intention is to bring out, radicitus, the passion for the life and the instance properly ethical of his thought. The experience of the ill life of Svevo, Tolstoj, Musil, Mann, Dostoevskij, van Gogh, Ensor, Munch, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Blanchot, seen as an expression of literary power, autistic and philosophical/political, bends, in Michelstaedter, into its exact opposite: healthy living, one for wich is possible overcome any residual metaphysical and transcendent.