Gadda prima di Contini. Dai primi scritti al

This work aims to rebuild the literary beginnings of Gadda from a philological and critical point of view, by comparing published and unpublished projects. Cronological limits of the survey are the years 1924 - when the writer, back from Argentina, can finally devote himself to writing, and attend the courses of the Accademia Scientifico-Letteraria - and 1934 - when the publication of his second book, Il castello di Udine, is preceded by a review written by Gianfranco Contini, in which the category of pastiche is used for the first time. The analysis of the author's first production has been conducted with a cronologic and thematic approach. The span considered has been divided into two blocks - 1924-1929 (Part I) and 1930-1934 (Part II) - highlighted by both relevant biographic events and clear breaks in the artistic path. The first part is organized into three sections: the academic studies, the encounter with the narrative dimension, and the descriptive proses. In the second part instead the works realized on a commision basis for magazines and newspapers have been separated by those of narrative genre.