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  Carlo Emilio Gadda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is an Italian writer of the 20th century.
Gadda was a practising engineer from Milan, and he both loved and hated his job.
Carlo Emilio Gadda was born in Milan in 1893, and he was always intensely Milanese, although late in his life Florence and Rome also became an influence (Gadda's nickname is Il Gran Lombardo, The Great Lombard).
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 That Awful Mess on Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
JACKET NOTES: Carlo Emilio Gadda is universally regarded as the most interesting and original writer in contemporary Italian literature, and this novel, his major work, is recognized throughout Europe as a masterpiece of baroque magnificence and savage, fl humor.
Gadda's great novel may therefore be seen as a profound and vast allegory of Italy's descent into corruption and violence during the dark years of Fascist rule.
Gadda is above all close to Joyce in the power of his intellect, in the overflowing richness of cultural learning he brings to his writing, and in the great range in mood and tone of his style.
www.gialli.com /CEG01.html   (369 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Carlo Emilio Gadda (Italian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Carlo Emilio Gadda[kAr´lO AmE´lyO gAd´dA] Pronunciation Key, 1893–1973, Italian novelist.
Although trained as an electrical engineer, Gadda devoted his energies to writing.
Gadda's early works are collected in I sogni e la folgore (1955).
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 Carlo Emilio Gadda
Gadda revolted against conventional literary expression and thought that only through fragmentary, incoherent language could he portray the multiplicity of the disintegrated world.
Gadda fought in World War I and was taken prisoner by the Germans, where he met Ugo Betti, later well-known dramatist, poet, and novelist.
Gadda's misogynous tone has been explained by personal attitudes of the author and by the general atmosphere of the age it portrays.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /gadda.htm   (1018 words)

  
 LitWeb.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gadda revolted against conventional literary expression and thought that only through deforming the language he could portray the multiplicity of reality.
Carlo Emilio Gadda was born in Milan into an upper middle-class family.
Gadda fought in the World War I and was taken prisoner by the Germans.
www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/gadda_carlo_emilio.html   (800 words)

  
 Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Luigi di Francia Margaret Baker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gadda's own, cautiously optimistic comment on I Luigi di Francia, made to Livio Garzanti on the eve of its publication, is recorded by Gianmarco Gaspari in his Note to accompany the Garzanti edition of the Opere: "un lavoro non privo di qualche interesse, e, in ogni modo, un po' inconsueto".
[9] By the time of this interview Gadda had already been employed with the RAI for little more than a year, carrying out duties allied to the technical aspects of the writer's activities and thus his reflections on the interaction between his own different careers were well-founded.
[10] The reasons for Gadda's retaining the basic format of the radio scripts in the printed text can only be imagined (though foremost among these reasons there may have been the need to simplify his task when faced with the difficulty of keeping abreast of the other demands being made on him).
ehlt.flinders.edu.au /deptlang/fulgor/volume1i1/papers/v1i1_baker.htm   (3798 words)

  
 Carlo Emilio Gadda --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Gadda's best-known and most successful novel, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (1957; That Awful Mess on Via Merulana), is a story of a murder and burglary in fascist Rome and of the subsequent investigation, which features characters from many levels of Roman life.
Gadda's approach is as mercurial as his style: ironic, bitter, outrageously comic, philosophical, and obscene.
Gadda's La cognizione del dolore (1963, revised 1970; Acquainted with Grief) is autobiographical, though its setting is transferred from modern Italy to an invented South American country.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9035774?tocId=9035774   (912 words)

  
 Carlo Emilio Gadda
Carlo Emilio Gadda è forse uno dei più famosi autori italiani.
Dopo la sua morte, avvenuta nel 1909, la madre prende le redini della famiglia e Gadda si iscrive alla Facoltà di ingegneria del Politecnico di Milano malgrado volesse continuare gli studi letterari.
Malgrado l'alta considerazione ed il successo (forse tardivo), Gadda continua a vivere nel dolore e nella tristezza.
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 Home page di Carlo Emilio Gadda
Una povertà che Gadda patì non tanto e non solo per le rinunce materiali cui si trovarono costretti, ma per il fortissimo sentimento di umiliazione che provò, allora e in seguito, nei confronti di quella borghesia cui comunque i Gadda continuavano ad appartenere, pur non potendoselo più permettere.
Gadda sapeva bene di cosa stava parlando - e in effetti solo di ciò che si conosce per esperienza diretta è possibile scrivere con tanta efficacia - perché era lui stesso ammalato, sebbene silenziosamente.
Gadda vendette subito la villa di Longone al Segrino, intascò i soldi, smise una volta per tutte di fare l'ingegnere e scrisse di getto, l'anno dopo, la "Cognizione del dolore".
www.club.it /autori/grandi/carloemilio.gadda   (2729 words)

  
 Carlo Emilio Gadda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He studied in [Milan], and while studying at the Politecnico (a university specialized in engineering and architecture), he volunteered for Word War I. During the war he was taken prisoner and his brother was killed in a plane--his brother's death features prominently in La cognizione del dolore.
The country at that time was a boom economy, and Gadda used the experience for the fictional South American-cum-Brianza setting of La Cognizione del Dolore.
The reference literary critic for Gadda is, without doubt, Gianfranco Contini.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/carlo_emilio_gadda   (626 words)

  
 EJGS Archive – Manzotti: Carlo Emilio Gadda (I)
Gadda vi sarà estremamente sensibile, non solo nel concreto delle molte prose di viaggio (che si inseriscono in una nutrita linea di consimile letteratura “milanese” – si pensi ad Angioletti), ma anche a livello simbolico: I viaggi la morte è il significativo titolo di una delle raccolte maggiori.
Voci tipiche sono quelle di Cesare Angelini, Ada Negri, e Carlo Linati, il terzo «saggista accurato e calligrafico», «cultore della parola preziosa nella misura classica di un perenne elzeviro», (5) modello in effetti dell’interscambio possibile tra alto giornalismo e letteratura – la cui importanza per la prosa descrittiva gaddiana non è stata sufficientemente valutata.
Carlo (Emilio) Gadda nasce a Milano, in un appartamento della centrale via Manzoni (la «via Grand Boeuf» di Eros e Priapo, SGF II 347), il 14 novembre 1893, «quattordici giorni avanti la caduta del ministero Giolitti, del primo».
www.arts.ed.ac.uk /italian/gadda/Pages/resources/archive/general/manzottisalerno.html   (9213 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Carlo Emilio Gadda
Tommaso Landolfi (born 1908 in Pico (Frosinone), Italy and died in 1979 in Rome) was an Italian author and translator.
An engineer may be someone who practices the engineering profession, or the driver of a rail locomotive.
Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Carlo-Emilio-Gadda   (1321 words)

  
 FreisslerSoft Books Emilio
Carlo Emilio Gadda and the Modern MacAronic (Crosscurrents (Gainesville, Fla.))
Jose Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)
Carlo Emilio Gadda: Contemporary Perspectives (Toronto Italian Studies)
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 Acquainted with Grief by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Like Gadda, Gonzalo was brought up in an atmosphere of genteel poverty, "exacerbated by the typically Italian middle-class mania for keeping up appearances, for making a bella figura"-not the least element present in those moments of Gonzalo's magnificent rage against the conditions of his life.
Gadda's War Journal indicates the author's almost pathological attachment to his brother, who was killed in the First World War--an attachment tinged with jealousy of the mother's preference for this older son.
Weaver, who worked closely with Gadda on the present translation, the lasting scars of the relationship explain, in part.
italian-mysteries.com /CEG02.html   (441 words)

  
 issue three ponticelli
Gadda syntax presents itself as a trait d'union between old and new literary instances: according to Futurist poetics, it is innovative and can successfully represent modern world and society through its daring syntactical architectures.
Gadda himself suggests that enumerations are an essential ingredient of his baroque: thus they can help to understand his special genre and his own interpretation of baroque.
Through them Gadda expresses his hot-tempered outbursts against military authorities and Italian society during and after the war, against all the people who did not perform their tasks and deserted their civil duties, in this way not valuing at all the sacrifice made by other big-hearted and heroic young men.
www.selc.ed.ac.uk /arachnofiles/pages/three_ponticelli.htm   (4532 words)

  
 Waggish: Italo Calvino on Musil and Gadda
Musil and Gadda appear to have almost nothing in common except for a certain underlying contempt for the world, and even that comes out very differently.
I don't know that he ever wrote more on Musil, but he was a big booster of Gadda: Calvino's introduction to Gadda's That Awful Mess on Via Mirulana is quite wonderful and much easier going than the novel itself.
But with Gadda, it's unavoidable: there is the insistent breakdown of facts and objects that Gadda can't avoid.
www.waggish.org /2003/06/italo_calvino_on_musil_and_gadda.html   (422 words)

  
 Carlo Emilio Gadda Biography / Biography of Carlo Emilio Gadda Literary Biography
Carlo Emilio Gadda is generally considered one of Italy's most important authors of this century.
His prose is characterized instead by a linguistic expressionism and a grotesque and baroque fantasy that have led Gianfranco Contini and other critics to see him as a contemporary practitioner of the Italian plurilingual, or macaronic, literary tradition.
Gadda worked for many years in Italy and abroad as an electrical engineer; he was seen for most of his career as a difficult and obscure author.
www.bookrags.com /biography-carlo-emilio-gadda-dlb   (206 words)

  
 Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Carlo Emilio Gadda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gadda was the first of three children born into a well-to-do burgeois family in Milan.
His father died when Gadda was young, and his mother pushed him into studying engineering, even though he was more interested in literature.
Bashful, awkward and neurotically attached to a bourgeois tradition of decorum, Gadda was never at ease with his homosexuality.
andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biog1/gadd1.html   (257 words)

  
 University Press of Florida: Carlo Emilio Gadda and the Modern Macaronic
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is generally considered in his native Italy to be "the one novelist that the country has produced who deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as Musil, Joyce, and Proust." This study is the first full historical and thematic appreciation of him in English.
Gadda's prose is characterized by a linguistic expressionism and a grotesque and baroque fantasy emblematic of a longstanding polyphonic and plurilingual tradition in Italian literature called the macaronic.
He traces this tradition from the Renaissance authors Teofilo Folengo and François Rabelais to the Romantics and Flaubert, and, in the case of Gadda, to the plurilingualism of the Italian peninsula.
www.upf.com /book.asp?id=SBRAGF96   (309 words)

  
 Carlo Emilio Gadda: Contemporary Perspectives
Under the expert guidance of Dombroski (since the 1970s a leading Gadda scholar) and Bertone (author of a book on Gadda, Il romanzo come sistema, 1993), this welcome addition to Gadda studies introduces readers to the writer's life and major works.
Taken together, they broach a multitude of questions--ranging from Gadda's relation to other narrators to philosophical, linguistic, stylistic, psychological, and ideological influences and attitudes--and fulfill the editors' declared goal: to establish a contemporary critical view on Gadda, and to render the major part of his writing familiar to readers acquainted only with his well-known novels.
Enriched with photographs and free of obvious errors, this volume is highly recommended, especially to upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars.
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 Carlo Emilio Gadda - Bertone, Manuela - 080204171X - Comprar libro - Venta de libro - Libros en espanol e ingles
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is considered by many to be Italy's most outstanding modern writer.
His plurilingualism, pastiches, and narrative entanglements are revealed both as a revolt against conventional literary style and as the expression of a chaotic, painful, and labyrinthine world inhabited by a fragmented subject.
Gadda emerges as a transgressive novelist, a humorist, and a mannerist who continuously deforms language through parodic and comic modes.
www.ofertondelibros.com /libros/-080204171X_Carlo%5FEmilio%5FGadda_Bertone,%5FManuela.html   (255 words)

  
 Emilio del Cavaliere --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A nobleman, he became supervisor of fine arts and entertainments at the court of the grand duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany.
The narration used to shift the vocal setting from scene to scene is most often sung in recitative, or free declamatory, style.
The first president of the Philippines was the revolutionary general and hero Emilio Aguinaldo.
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 Emilio Lussu
Together with Gaetano Salvemini and Carlo Rosselli he then gave life to "Giustizia e Libertà" (Justice and Freedom), an anti-Fascist movement that proposed revolutionary methods to replace the Regime.
This artikel Emilio_Lussu is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
Emilio M Amador - Diccionario Aleman Espanol / Espanol Aleman 2 vols.
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 Amazon.co.jp:Open City: Seven Writers in Post War Rome : Ignazio Silone, Giorgio Bassani, Alberto Moravia, Elsa ...
This anthology, then, is a peculiarly personal one, in which the editor exposes us to both the art and life of each author.
But the septet he has assembled is a splendid one, which suggests that the Eternal City was some kind of literary hot spot in the wake of the Second World War.
William Weaver, who drove an ambulance for the British Army during the war, also arrived in Rome in the late 1940s, fell in love with the Italian language and literature, and found a career in translating the writers he met there.
www.amazon.co.jp /exec/obidos/ASIN/1883642825/galenicom-22   (658 words)

  
 Opere di Carlo Emilio Gadda (I Libri della spiga) by Carlo Emilio Gadda, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 8811586402   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Carol Emilio Gadda and the Modern Macaronic (By Albert Sbragia)
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 ponticelli abstract
This article is a first systematic insight into Carlo Emilio Gadda's enumerations, with particular focus on their morphological aspects.
With particular reference to the longest and intricate ones, most critics have assumed that Gadda's enumerations reproduce the author's own ideas of chaos and disorder.
On the contrary, as I will demonstrate, the analysis of their architecture - how their items follow each other - reveals that they are entirely controlled and concluded structures, whereby many elements, such as connectives, repetitions and phonic associations, stop the centrifugal movement of their components.
www.selc.ed.ac.uk /arachnofiles/pages/three_ponticelli_ab.htm   (270 words)

  
 The Sunday Woman by Carlo Gruttero & Franco Lucentini
The Sunday Woman by Carlo Gruttero and Franco Lucentini
CARLO FRUTTERO and FRANCO LUCENTINI live in Turin and have been literary collaborators for fifteen years, editing, among other works, anthologies of American literature and science fiction.
Here, at long last, is a true novel whose scenes and people have real, continuing life, a novel that one reads with avidity and hates to put down.
italian-mysteries.com /CFR01.html   (299 words)

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