by Carlo Emilio Gadda · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432222481
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«El zafarrancho aquel de Vía Merulana» is the crime novel by Carlo Emilio Gadda, published by Seix Barral in hardback (298 pages, in Spanish).
In Rome during fascism, Commissioner Francesco Ingravallo investigates the theft of Countess Menegazzi's jewels and the murder of Liliana Balducci in a building on Via Merulana. Nearly all the neighbours end up implicated, and every clue complicates the enigma. The narrative stands out for its complex language and its portrait of Italian society.
Work originally published in 1957 as «Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana». This Spanish-language edition appeared in 1984 in the Obras Maestras de la Literatura Contemporánea collection.
For readers of crime fiction and of twentieth-century Italian literary classics.
Carlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers who played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.
