‘Within the circle of scholars and experts, Gadda is considered a classic of the twentieth century, alongside giants of the international scene such as Proust, Musil, Joyce, Pessoa, Céline, Nabokov, or Beckett’, we are reminded. It is of the great writer Carlo Emilio Gadda, who was born in Milan in 1893 and died in Rome in 1973, as well as his labyrinthine and complex work and its reception that Lucca Mazzocchi writes. Professor at the Universities of Milan and Oxford, Mazzocchi is a specialist in Italian literature of the 20th century, having studied in particular the work of Gadda, an author who exists to be discovered.