description: The city of Milan with its burgeoning lower- and upper-middle classes comes irresistibly to life in this hilarious fresco of early twentieth-century Italy. The affectionate portrait of old friends, the perfidious thrusts at old enemies, the celebration of personal recollection and the relationship between different classes and generations compose the vast, chequered tableau of Adalgisa. With his characteristically caustic pen, Gadda systematically exposes the hypocrisy, vanity and folly of an entire generation, drawing from an inexhaustible variety of languages, jargons, genres, tones and registers. The result is one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Italian literature.
language: English
title: Adalgisa
titlecomplete: Adalgisa (Modern Voices Series)
genres: Fiction, Italy, Short Stories, Italian Literature
ratings_count: 159
publisher: Hesperus Pr