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“... eighty years (1893-1973) and many publications, an air of incompletion lingers about the work of Carlo EmilioGadda. His most popular novel, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, is an unfinished murder story. His best work, Acquainted with Grief, is again unfinished and again leaves us with an unsolved crime (in this ...”

“... of the encyclopedic novel through Perec, Mann, Proust and Flaubert, he homes in on the figures of Carlo EmilioGadda and Robert Musil, two ‘engineer-writers’ who have one quality in common: ‘their inability to find an ending’. Despite his own love of arcana and encyclopedic forms, Calvino’s relationship to ...”

“... Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms, where he wrote that ‘war is not won by victory.’ The writer Carlo EmilioGadda, who took part in the chaotic retreat and was imprisoned for months by the Austrians, wrote at the time that ‘my moral life is over’ and later said: ‘The shame of the defeat became increasingly ...”

“... to unpeel it like an infinite artichoke’. This metaphor appears in an essay in praise of Carlo EmilioGadda, a writer who approaches the infinite world through fractal digression; Calvino approaches the same world through brevity, precision.The Written World and the Unwritten World is a selection of short ...”