Unaufhörliches Suchen – Gaddas Roman Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana als carmen perpetuum

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  • Gadda’s novel Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de Via Merulana tells the tale of two crimes committed in Rome in the 1920s. The search for the perpetrators turns into a pasticciaccio brutto (an awful mess), challenging the reader with its linguistic complexity and a myriad of references to history and culture; the large number of allusions to antiquity is particularly striking. References to Virgil’s Aeneid and to Rome’s mythical past do not constitute a mere transfer, but document a creative approach of transformational nature. Deformation andGadda’s novel Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de Via Merulana tells the tale of two crimes committed in Rome in the 1920s. The search for the perpetrators turns into a pasticciaccio brutto (an awful mess), challenging the reader with its linguistic complexity and a myriad of references to history and culture; the large number of allusions to antiquity is particularly striking. References to Virgil’s Aeneid and to Rome’s mythical past do not constitute a mere transfer, but document a creative approach of transformational nature. Deformation and inversion are part of this process, changing the μορφή not only in formal terms, but also within the plot itself. These transformations of both form and content are read as Metamorphoses and analysed in comparison to Ovid’s homonymous work. The perpetual, never-ending quest for truth in Gadda’s novel necessitates a perpetual, never-ending narrative, which is conceptually related to Ovid’s carmen perpetuum.show moreshow less

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Author: Kai Schöpe
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-161673
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen
Language:German
Parent Title (Multiple languages):promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
ISSN:2510-2613
Year of Completion:2016
Volume:2
Pagenumber:193-222
Source:promptus 2 (2016), S. 193-222
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 87 Lateinische, italische Literaturen / 870 Italische Literaturen; Lateinische Literatur
GND Keyword:Gadda, Carlo Emilio : Quer pasticciaccio brutto de Via Merulana
Tag:Gadda, Carlo Emilio : Quer pasticciaccio brutto de Via Merulana; perpetual, never-ending narrative
Release Date:2018/05/07
Collections:Zeitschriften (Journals) / promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik / Band 2 / Artikel / articles
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International