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Gadda, Carlo Emilio

Born Nov. 14, 1893, in Milan. Italian writer.

Gadda began his literary career at the end of the 1920’s. His talent unfolded after Italy’s liberation from fascism: the antifascist collection Stories From the Duchy Aflame (1953) and the satirical-grotesque novel Acquainted With Grief (final version, 1963). His most characteristic work is the novel That Awful Mess on Via Merulana (1948; final version, 1957), which depicts life in Rome under fascism. Uniquely interwoven in Gadda’s works are elements of verism and satire as well as a refined psychologism. The writer exposes the mores of bourgeois Italy. Elements of various dialects and slang are merged in Gadda’s complex language.

WORKS

La madonna dei filosofi. Florence, 1931.
Il castello di Udine. Florence, 1934.
Eros e Priapo. Milan, 1967.
La Meccanica. Milan, 1970.

REFERENCES

Fiorentino, L. Narratori del Novecento. Milan, 1960.
Seroni, A. “C. E. Gadda.” Paragone, 1969, no. 230.

G. D. BOGEMSKII

References in periodicals archive

Ha come compagno di baracca Carlo Emilio Gadda, un incontro che segna profondamente il futuro drammaturgo.

Ugo Betti: II giudice giudicato

Abstract: Carlo Emilio Gadda entertained a dialogue with several poets of his time, either because he did not appreciate their influence (this is the case of Gabriele D'Annunzio), or because he promoted their poetry (this is the case especially of Eugenio Montale).

Gadda and his fellow poets: some reflections on their exchange

(1921), Giovanni Comisso's Giorni di guerra (1930) and the first part of Carlo Emilio Gadda's Castello di Udine (1934), in addition to his Giornale di guerra e di prigionia (1955-1991).

Broken images of a defeat: gadda, comisso, malaparte, and the rout of caporetto

Giraffes in the garden of Italian literature; modernist embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda.

Giraffes in the garden of Italian literature; modernist embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

Includes Giovanni Arpino, Giuseppe Bonaviri, Vitaliano Brancati, Gesualdo Bufalino, Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino, Carlo Cassola, Umberto Eco, Beppe Fenoglio, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Natalia Ginzburg, Raffaele La Capria, Tommaso Landolfi, Luigi Malerba, Alberto Moravia, Anna Maria Ortese, Goffredo Parise, Giuseppe Pontiggia, Vasco Pratolini, Francesca Sanvitale, Leonardo Sciascia, Carlo Sgorlon, Mario Soldati, Antonio Tabucchi, Mario Tobino, and Elio Vittorini.

Recent italian translations: a checklist

The initial thought behind this ambitious and broadly-based study of the pre-war novels of Celine (Voyage au bout de la nuit, Mort a credit), the diaries, essays, and fiction of Carlo Emilio Gadda, and the early English-language fiction of Samuel Beckett (up to and including Murphy) is primarily, its author explains, a polemical one.

Celine, Gadda, Beckett: Experimental Writings of the 1930s

Apart from Emilio De Marchi's II cappello del prete and Carlo Emilio Gadda's Pasticciaccio, there is an almost desolate array of stories that sink without trace, leaving at most a brief footnote in the specialized encyclopedias, even though these thrillers are always supported by massive advertising or by an organized campaign in the national press of uncritical reviews by paid hacks.

Luigi Giliberto. Tracce di sangue a pie di pagina

Piensese, entre otros casos, en la traduccion que Carlo Emilio Gadda hace al italiano de El mundo por de dentro de Francisco de Quevedo, de donde reproducimos el siguiente fragmento:

Traduccion e interferencias comunicativas

Glossario di Carlo Emilio Gadda 'milanese': Da 'La meccanica' a 'L'Adalgisa'.

Glossario di Carlo Emilio Gadda 'milanese': Da 'La meccanica' a 'L'Adalgisa'