The English Impatient

edited by Albert Sbragia

Carlo Emilio Gadda
Two chapters from Acquainted with Grief
That Mess in a pocket (seven key extracts)
A different Mess
The fire on Kepler Street
Marco Bernini
Blueprints for Worldshaking: Mondi, coscienze e paratesto nell’Adalgisa
Norma Bouchard
Reading Gadda from Argentina: The Case of Enrique Butti’s Indí
Italo Calvino
Introduction to That Awful Mess
Loredana Di Martino
Modernism / Postmodernism. Rethinking the Canon through Gadda
Robert S. Dombroski
Apocalypse, how? – Gadda, Svevo, Pirandello
Guido Guglielmi
Gadda and the Form of the Novel
Raffaele Lampugnani
Lexicalisation of a Scatological Image in La cognizione: Hacer una pera revisited
Emilio Manzotti
Some Characteristic Procedures of Gadda’s Writing
Manuela Marchesini
Il segreto macchinismo dietro il quadrante dell’orologio. For a New Visual Rendition of Gadda’s Pasticciaccio
Federica G. Pedriali
Cain and other symmetries (the early alternatives)
The Universe stinks (Gadda perfects our plot)
Nicoletta Pireddu
Scruffy Shreds of Platinum: Carlo Emilio Gadda and Other Messy Chemists
Albert Sbragia
The Modern Macaronic
«Toga Caput Obvolvit»: The Ideal of Rome in C.E. Gadda
Borislava Vassileva
Confounding and Doubling the Self. Sharing the Role of the Protagonist in La cognizione del dolore
William Weaver
Introduction to Acquainted with Grief
The Process of Translation
Recollections of Gadda
Katrin Wehiling-Giorgi
Defilement, War and the Corpse. On Abjection in Gadda and Céline

Published by The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies (EJGS)

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