Gadda Transmissions
Carlo Emilio Gadda Across Boundaries, Languages and Systems
Edited by Luca Mazzocchi and Serena Vandi
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ISBN: 978-1-839544-03-3 (hardback) • RRP £95, $120, €120 ISBN: 978-1-839544-04-0 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-839544-05-7 (JSTOR ebook) Hybridism is the key word to describe the work of Carlo Emilio Gadda (Milan, 1893–Rome, 1973), one of the major voices of twentieth-century Italian literature. Engineer, philosopher, writer, Gadda defied categorisation, weaving together literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, history, and the natural sciences in a body of work that challenges interpretation, editorial practice, and translation. To engage with Gadda compels us to embrace complexity, contradiction, and, above all, an interdisciplinary perspective. This book answers that call, by gathering for the first time scholars from across the humanities — textual criticism, literary criticism, linguistics, translation studies, philosophy, cultural studies — alongside an archive manager, an archive owner, and a translator. The book presents Gadda as a case study, with the aim of acknowledging his singular position at the crossroads of crucial theoretical debates on the nature of literature and the responsibilities of cultural transmission. Luca Mazzocchi holds a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages (Italian) from the University of Oxford and has recently completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Bologna. Serena Vandi is Assistant Professor in Italian at Trinity College Dublin and Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. Bibliography entry: Mazzocchi, Luca, and Serena Vandi (eds), Gadda Transmissions: Carlo Emilio Gadda Across Boundaries, Languages and Systems, Italian Perspectives, 65 (Legenda, 2026) First footnote reference: 35 Gadda Transmissions: Carlo Emilio Gadda Across Boundaries, Languages and Systems, ed. by Luca Mazzocchi and Serena Vandi, Italian Perspectives, 65 (Legenda, 2026), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Mazzocchi and Vandi, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Mazzocchi, Luca, and Serena Vandi (eds). 2026. Gadda Transmissions: Carlo Emilio Gadda Across Boundaries, Languages and Systems, Italian Perspectives, 65 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Mazzocchi and Vandi 2026: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Mazzocchi and Vandi 2026: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Gadda-Transmissions www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ip-65 |
17 June 2026 • 244pp