Carlo Emilio Gadda: fine dell’illusione di controllo

This work deals with a reading of the philosophy contained in Gadda's essay Meditazione Milanese; in reading Meditazione I decided to respect Gadda' s request as expressed in the introductory chapter of his essay: do not deny his written a philosophical consistency. Meditazione Milanese, for its apparent dis-homogeneity, its baroque appearance and the simultaneity of references that Gadda takes from different philosophies (Leibniz, Spinoza and Kant are the philosophers of reference), was considered in this work as the machine that has conditioned in its tacit absence (Meditazione milanese will be published posthumously) Gadda's writings. Borrowing beautiful philosophic Aristotle's image, we can consider Meditazione Milanese as the "motor immobile" who created Gadda's literary cosmos.