Gadda and Beckett: Storytelling, Subjectivity and Fracture

"While the writing of Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is renowned for its linguistic and narrative proliferation, the best-known works of Samuel Beckett (1906-89) are minimalist, with a clear fondness for subtraction and abstraction. Despite these face-value differences, a close reading of the two authors'' early prose writings reveals some surprisingly affinitive concerns, rooted in their profound...