biography
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Gadda, Carlo Emilio
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pronunciation:
[gahda]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1973)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Milan, Lombardy, N Italy. He fought in World War 1, an experience he later described in Giornale di guerra e di prigionia (1955, 1965). He graduated in engineering but in 1924 began contributing to Solaria. In 1944 he published L'Adalgisa, a collection of short stories set in the Milan area which already show his linguistic experimentalism, and the mixture of literary prose, dialect, and archaism which would come to identify his style. In Rome he published one of his best-known works, Quel pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (1957) a thriller-like short story which is a metaphor for modern society's evil. La cognizione del dolore (1963) is widely acknowledged as his masterpiece. It is a novel with much autobiographical detail set in an imaginary South American country. Other works include Il primo libro delle favole (1952), Novelle dal Ducato in fiamme (1953), and Racconto italiano di ignoto del Novecento (1983). |
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