That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
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- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2007
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590172223 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590172221 |
| Author: | Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italo Calvino |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 126mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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“The experimental masterpiece modern Italian literature has long been awaiting.… There is a kinship to Joyce, especially in Gadda’s inspired outbursts of comic invective, his ferocious Romantic humor.” —The New York Times
About The Author
Carlo Emilio Gadda
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) was born in Milan, where he spent a “tormented childhood and even more miserable adolescence.” He earned a degree in engineering, volunteered to fight in World War I, and was taken prisoner by the Germans. After the war, Gadda began to write while working as an engineer in countries as far afield as Argentina. Among Gadda’s other books are a novel, Acquainted with Grief, and his War and Prison Journals.
Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. His works include Numbers in the Dark, The Road to San Giovanni, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, The Baron in the Trees, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar.
William Weaver is celebrated for his numerous translations from the Italian, including Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and novels and stories by Italo Calvino. Weaver’s translation of Pirandello’s The Late Mattia Pascal is also published by NYRB Classics.
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