Plurilinguismo e disordine del mondo in Carlo Emilio Gadda
Plurilingualism and disorder of the world in Carlo Emilio Gadda

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the need to convert the disorder of the world into a rational whole and a rigorous vision of reality, Carlo Emilio Gadda, paradoxically, does nothing but reveals the chaotic disorder of his time, the tangle of relationships that hides behind the apparent simplicity of objects and facts. His two unfinished masterpieces, That Awful Mess in Via Merulana and The Cognition of Pain, offer us a portrait of the infinite multiplicity of relationships of which every manifestation of reality is an expression. To represent all this, he brings together the national language and its various dialects, mixes the sectorial languages of science, technology, engineering, medicine, psychoanalysis and art history. The result is an original and extremely innovative prose, in which the vulgar and low registers alternate with lyrical and sublime registers in an extraordinary stylistic excursion. His stories convince us that the complexity of reality cannot be traced back to a reassuring, unambiguous and complete description.

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