Literature as the Experience of Boundary Crossing: Gadda's Descent to Hell and the Solution to That Awful Mess of Via Merulana

Abstract

I will attempt a reading of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s second and last novel, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, published by Garzanti in 1957, through an interpretation of its vexata quaestio par excellence: Pasticciaccio’s supposedly open ending.1 Virtually everyone interested in Gadda, whose number has grown considerably during the last two decades on both sides of the Atlantic, has written on the subject I am addressing: Gadda’s ending to That Awful Mess of Via Merulana.2 My

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