Gadda Goes to War
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Introduces and analyses a stage performance of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda When do we start going to war and why? What did it mean to go to war from World War I to World War II and beyond, in Italy, before and after Mussolini? These questions are explored in this book through a unique combination of scholarly and theatrical performance based on Gadda's war diaries and a belated anti-Mussolini pamphlet. These works were adapted for the stage by Fabrizio Gifuni in 2010 (Ubu Prize for Best Actor and Best Show of the Year), and are now presented for the first time in…mehr

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Introduces and analyses a stage performance of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda When do we start going to war and why? What did it mean to go to war from World War I to World War II and beyond, in Italy, before and after Mussolini? These questions are explored in this book through a unique combination of scholarly and theatrical performance based on Gadda's war diaries and a belated anti-Mussolini pamphlet. These works were adapted for the stage by Fabrizio Gifuni in 2010 (Ubu Prize for Best Actor and Best Show of the Year), and are now presented for the first time in English. Gadda Goes to War includes: - facing Italian text; - a dvd of the performance with English subtitles; - a guide to Gadda's work and reception produced specially for an English-speaking audience. Fabrizio Gifuni is one of Italy's leading actors. His career successfully combines cinema and theatre. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Federico Fellini Prize for his outstanding career in the arts. Federica G. Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies and Head of Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is the Founder and Director of the Edinburgh Gadda Projects, General Editor of the Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies and Director of the Italo-Scottish Research Centre. Cover image: Pirobutirro's Battle, 2012 (c) Lefke Kerr. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com ISBN 978-0-7486-6872-4 [please add within the barcode box, at the top] Barcode
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Federica Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies and Head of Italian at Edinburgh University. She is the Director of the Edinburgh Gadda Projects, General Editor of the Edinburgh Gadda Journal, Chair of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize, Chair of the Nicola Benedetti Scholarship Fund and Director of the Italo-Scottish Research Centre. Her books include La farmacia degli incurabili. Da Collodi a Calvino (2006) and Altre carceri d'invenzione. Studi gaddiani (2007). She is currently editing A Pocket Gadda Encyclopedia (4 vols, 2013), and working on a two-volume project The Universe Stinks. Props, Gaps and Last Subjects, From Bruno to Gadda and From Freud to Foucault.