Castle of Udine

...His avant-garde style, which could be called literature of deformation or literature of the absurd, captured the hearts of the younger generation who were no longer satisfied with neorealism in the midst of the development of capitalist society after World War II, and had a great influence on promoting the Neo-Avanguardia movement centered on the so-called '63 Group. His representative works include his first collection of short stories, "Madonna of the Philosophers" (1931), "The Castle of Udine" (1934), which describes his experiences in the military, "Adalgisa" (1944), subtitled "Milan Sketches," and the full-length novels "The Tragedy of the Via Merulana" (1957) and "Recognition of Sorrow" (1963), which raised Gadda's fame internationally. [Kyoko Washihei]. ...

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…デフォルメの文学とも，不条理の文学とも呼びうるその前衛的な作風は，第2次大戦後の資本主義社会発展のなかで，もはやネオレアリズモに飽き足らなくなった若い世代の心をとらえ，いわゆる63年グループを中心とするネオ･アバングアルディアの運動の促進に多大な影響を与えた。代表作に，最初の短編集《哲学者たちの聖母》(1931)，従軍体験を綴った《ウディネの城》(1934)，〈ミラノ･スケッチ〉の副題をもつ《アダルジーザ》(1944)，ガッダの名声を国際的にも高めた長編小説《メルラーナ街の惨劇》(1957)および《悲しみの認識》(1963)等がある。【鷲平 京子】。…

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