Olga Ragusa (essay date 1969)
SOURCE: "Gadda, Pasolini, and Experimentalism: Form or Ideology?" in From Verismo to Experimentalism: Essays on the Modern Italian Novel, edited by Sergio Pacifici, Indiana University Press, 1969, pp. 246-69.
[In the following excerpt, Ragusa compares the works of Pasolini and Carlo Emilio Gadda and explores each writer's relationship with experimentalism.]
The subject of this essay is threefold—threefold precisely in the sense which the title implies of simply juxtaposing the names of two writers and a...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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