Carlo Emilio Gadda Summary

Carlo Emilio Gadda is generally considered one of Italy's most important authors of this century. Gadda does not share the transparency of style one finds in Italo Svevo or Italo Calvino. His prose is... Read more

In the following essay, Cannon discusses the ways in which Gadda mocks traditional detective novel conventions in Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana. Until the publication of Quer pasticciaccio... Read more

In the following essay, Tench warns against any simplistic reading of Quer pasticciaccio brutto de Via Merulana, noting that comparisons to the Aeneid in the work are muddied by the dualities Gadda po... Read more

In the following essay, de Lucca discusses the influence of nineteenth-century Italian author Alessandro Manzoni on Gadda and compares and contrasts their views on the function of literature. The diff... Read more

In the following essay, Guglielmi uses Gadda's compositional notes from Racconto italiano di ignoto del novecento to explore the philosophical principles underlying Gadda's approach to n... Read more

In the following excerpt, Bouchard notes the ways in which some of Gadda's early writings exhibited his growing sense of an open-ended, ambiguous reality. MORALUZZA: E' bene rimettere al... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Bongiorno In [Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana], as if to underline by contrast his stylistic intentions, Gadda chooses the plot of a "giallo," a detect... Read more

Critical Essay by Gian-paolo Biasin No doubt Gadda's [Anastomòsi] is emblematic for the theme of literary diseases. The levels at which we may read it range from the simple and elementar... Read more