Gadda Carlo Emilio
Gadda Carlo Emilio - That Awful Mess On The Via Merulana - Paperback
Gadda Carlo Emilio - That Awful Mess On The Via Merulana - Paperback
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Description: In a large apartment house in central Rome two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken and a murder as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate melancholy Detective Ciccio a secret admirer of the murdered woman and a friend of her husband's discovers that almost everyone in the apartment building is somehow involved in the case and with each new development the mystery only deepens and broadens. Gadda's sublimely different detective story presents a scathing picture of fascist Italy while tracking the elusiveness of the truth the impossibility of proof and the infinite complexity of the workings of fate showing how they come into conflict with the demands of justice and love. Italo Calvino Pier Paolo Pasolini and Alberto Moravia all considered That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana to be the great modern Italian novel. Unquestionably it is a work of universal significance and protean genius: a rich social novel a comic opera an act of political resistance a blazing feat of baroque wordplay and a haunting story of life and death.
Title: That Awful Mess On The Via Merulana
Author(s): Gadda Carlo Emilio
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590172223
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 2/27/2007
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: In a large apartment house in central Rome two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken and a murder as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate melancholy Detective Ciccio a secret admirer of the murdered woman and a friend of her husband's discovers that almost everyone in the apartment building is somehow involved in the case and with each new development the mystery only deepens and broadens. Gadda's sublimely different detective story presents a scathing picture of fascist Italy while tracking the elusiveness of the truth the impossibility of proof and the infinite complexity of the workings of fate showing how they come into conflict with the demands of justice and love. Italo Calvino Pier Paolo Pasolini and Alberto Moravia all considered That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana to be the great modern Italian novel. Unquestionably it is a work of universal significance and protean genius: a rich social novel a comic opera an act of political resistance a blazing feat of baroque wordplay and a haunting story of life and death.
Title: That Awful Mess On The Via Merulana
Author(s): Gadda Carlo Emilio
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590172223
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 2/27/2007
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
