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Name: Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Author: Carlo Emilio Gadda

📘 Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda

An untranslatable, convoluted work of genius, where a cruel homicide is used as the motor of a plot that pries open the souls of the people involved in the story, with their aspirations and their defeats. Without equals.

First publish date: 2000

Authors: Carlo Emilio Gadda

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