'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict' Italo Calvino At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo ...

• Author: Carlo Emilio Gadda
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• ISBN: 9780141395661
• Category: Fiction
• Page: 256
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Translation As That Awful Mess on Via Merulana, translated by William Weaver,
New York: George Braziller, 1966. Further Reading Alessandri, Luca, "L'autore
nel Pasticciaccio" Lingua e Stile, 31:1(March 1996): 79-99. Bignamini, Mauro, "
Un ...

• Author: Gaetana Marrone
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISBN: 9781579583903
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 1504
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"Acquainted with Grief, written between 1938 and 1941, begins as a charade (what is the significance of the strange mock-Spanish dictatorship that serves as the story's locale: Mussolini's Italy in harmless disguise?).

• Author: Carlo Emilio Gadda
• Publisher: Peter Owen Limited
• ISBN: UOM:39015014234853
• Category: Biography & Autobiography
• Page: 219
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Gadda began writing his novel That Awful Mess on Via Merulana at the peak of
the Fascist demagoguery , when Italy had made its disastrous entry into World
War II . The catastrophic events of those years caused Gadda to shift his narrative
 ...

• Author: Frank Northen Magill
• Publisher:
• ISBN: 0893563714
• Category: Fiction
• Page: 2396
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( William Weaver in the forward to his English translation , That Awful Mess on
Via Merulana , ( 1965 ) p.xv ) It is curious that in a city as beautiful as Rome
Gadda would choose this " unromantic " setting for his novel . Perhaps he
chooses Via ...

• Author: Joel Farson
• Publisher:
• ISBN: UCSD:31822007560980
• Category:
• Page: 122
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