page_title: Carlo Emilio Gadda
section_title: Literary work
hierarchical_section_title: Carlo Emilio Gadda / Literary work
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Tomba dello scrittore Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) al Cimitero acattolico di Roma.
context_page_description: Carlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.
context_section_description: La madonna dei filosofi (1931), translated into English as The Philosophers' Madonna (Atlas Press, 2008) by Antony Melville.
  Il castello di Udine (1934)
  Le meraviglie d'Italia (1939)
  Gli anni (1943)
  L'Adalgisa (1944, short stories)
  Il primo libro delle favole (1952, collection of tales in a mock-antique style)
  Novelle dal ducato in fiamme (1953, short stories)
  I sogni e la folgore (1955)
  Giornale di guerra e di prigionia (1955), a diary covering Gadda's years in World War I, including his military actions in the Passo Tonale area and his months as a prisoner in Austria
  Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (1946, 1957), translated into English as That Awful Mess on Via Merulana (George Braziller, 1965) by William Weaver.
  I viaggi e la morte (1958)
  Verso la Certosa (1961)
  Accoppiamenti giudiziosi (1963)
  La cognizione del dolore (1963), translated into English as Acquainted with Grief (George Braziller, 1969) by William Weaver; republished as The Experience of Pain (Penguin, 2017) translated by Richard Dixon.
  I Luigi di Francia (1964), a summary of French history, through the distorting and corrosive outlook of the author
  Eros e Priapo (1967)
  La meccanica (1970)
  Novella seconda (1971)
  Meditazione milanese (1974)
  Le bizze del capitano in congedo (1981)
  Il palazzo degli ori (1983)
  Racconto italiano di ignoto del novecento (1983)
  Azoto e altri scritti di divulgazione scientifica (1986, collection of scientific prose)
  Taccuino di Caporetto (1991)
  Opere (1988–93)
caption: Gadda's grave in the Non-Catholic Cemetery. Photo by Massimo Consoli.
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