CRITICISM

Baker, Margaret. “The Women Characters of Carlo Emilio Gadda.” In Visions and Revisions: Women in Italian Culture, edited by Mirna Cicioni and Nicole Prunster, pp. 53-69. Providence, R.I.: Berg, 1993.

A chapter on the construction of women characters in Gadda's works which began as a paper at a conference on women in Italian studies.

Calvino, Italo. “The Pasticciaccio Carlo Emilio Gadda.” In Why Read the Classics?, translated by Martin McLaughlin, pp. 201-08. N.Y.: Pantheon, 1999.

Discussion of an important Gadda novel within a defense of classic literature written by a famous Italian writer.

Dombroski, Robert S. Creative Entanglements: Gadda and the Baroque. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 151 p.

Study by a prominent Gadda scholar of Gadda's relationship to the idea of the baroque and his treatment of the human condition.

Sbragia, Albert. Carlo Emilio Gadda and the Modern Macaronic. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996, 216 p.

One of the few full-length English-language studies of Gadda, emphasizing his place in the so-called “macaronic” tradition of such writers as James Joyce and Louis Ferdinand Céline.

———. “Fear of the Periphery: Colonialism, Class, and the South American Outbacks.” Modern Language Notes 111, no. 1 (January 1996): 38-57.

Study of Gadda's reaction to the 1938 Italian revolution and to the idea of colonial adventurism.

Additional coverage of Gadda's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 89-92; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 11; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 177; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; and Literature Resource Center.