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Carlo Emilio Gadda.
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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...
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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...
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In the following essay, Dombroski deconstructs the Freudian complexities of Gadda's fictional autobiography as evidenced in its dream sequences, concluding that the protagonist's narciss...
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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...
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In the following essay, Lucente develops a complex argument on the nature of self-reflexivity in discussing La cognizione del dolore.
The relationship between language and other systems of thought and...
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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...
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In the following essay, Roscioni discusses the relationship of Gadda's humor to that of English author Lawrence Sterne and his disciples.
In reference to what is, broadly speaking, the ‘...
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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...
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In the following essay, Benedetti states that the mourning and grief expressed in La cognizione del dolore has its roots in Freudian “reality-testing,” which explains the macaronic style...
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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:
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Critical Essay by Robert S. Dombroski
In spite of the profound treatment of the themes of human alienation and insignificance diffused throughout his fiction, Carlo Emilio Gadda's importance is...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Joan Mcconnell-mammarella
After the first few pages of Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, the reader is struck by Gadda's skillful and, in certain instances, even unor...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Robert Martin Adams
[In] his collection of short journalistic travelogues titled Le Meraviglie d'Italia, Carlo Emilio Gadda discusses, with a preternatural solemnity verging o...
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