Gadda Goes to War by Federica G Pedriali
Introduces and analyses a stage performance of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda. When do we start going to war and why? And what did it mean to go to war from World War I to World War I and beyond, in Italy, before and after Mussolini, before and after, that is, that warring spirit of the age which keeps nations in fighting mode? Both time specific and universal, these questions are explored in this book through a unique combination of scholarly and theatrical performance based on the war diaries and a belated anti-Mussolini pamphlet by Italy's greatest Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973).These works were adapted for the stage by actor, playwright and director Fabrizio Gifuni in 2010, and are now presented for the first time in English, supplemented with facing Italian text, a dvd of the performance with English subtitles, and an engaging, thought-provoking scholarly guide to Italy's own Joyce purposely produced for the Anglophone audience by the Edinburgh Gadda Projec
Federica Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies and Head of Italian at Edinburgh University. She is the Director of the Edinburgh Gadda Projects, General Editor of the Edinburgh Gadda Journal, Chair of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize, Chair of the Nicola Benedetti Scholarship Fund and Director of the Italo-Scottish Research Centre. Her books include La farmacia degli incurabili. Da Collodi a Calvino (2006) and Altre carceri d’invenzione. Studi gaddiani (2007). She is currently editing A Pocket Gadda Encyclopedia (4 vols, 2013), and working on a two-volume project The Universe Stinks. Props, Gaps and Last Subjects, From Bruno to Gadda and From Freud to Foucault.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748668724 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748668721 |
| Title | Gadda Goes to War |
| Author | Federica G Pedriali |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2013-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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