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That Awful Mess, Life: The Language of Gadda's Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana

Year: 1992
Type: article
Abstract: stylistic challenge never fully met by writers who follow.But I believe we must look beyond the formai sphere to comprehend Gadda's insistent experimentation; bis linguistic manipulations reveal a psychological and socio-political contradiction.My notion, simply put, is that the rage driving Gadda's texts is not so much, as critics bave suggested, a failed idealism but rather a kind of fatalism or determinism based on the very paradigm he was rejecting.In their manifestoes, the Italian Futurists welcomed war as a kind of "hygiene" that would rid the world of everything they considered out-
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
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