Textual devices and plurality of voices in the Gadda essayist
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Abstract
This paper focuses on Carlo Emilio Gadda’s collection I viaggi la morte (1958) in order to analyse, with linguistic and stylistic tools, three distinctive devices: person deixis; language games; the expression of abstract concepts through concrete and material images. All these devices are linked in various ways to the polyphonic dimension of Gadda’s writing, and all are present in the narrator, but developed by the essayist according to a specific argumentative orientation.
Keywords
- Carlo Emilio Gadda
- person deixis
- polyphony
