That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

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That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

work by Gadda

Also known as: “Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana”

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…brutto de via Merulana (1957; That Awful Mess on Via Merulana), is a story of a murder and burglary in fascist Rome and of the subsequent investigation, which features characters from many levels of Roman life. The language of the novel, known to Italians as Il pasticciaccio (“The Pastiche”), is…
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