Gabriele Frasca
The Crolla Amato Gadda Prize
Best Published Scholarly Work on Gadda
Panel 1 Judge
Gabriele Frasca, born in Naples in 1957, is an eclectic writer, author of essays, novels, poetry and plays, that might be described as an experimental formalist, if both those words weren’t so inadeguate. He has published the following collections of poems: Rame (1984; enlarged edition: 1999), Lime (1995), Rive (2001) and Rimi (2013); the novels Il fermo volere (1987 and 2004), Santa Mira (2001 and 2006) and Dai cancelli d’acciaio (2011); the collection of plays Tele (1998); the essays Cascando. Tre studi su Samuel Beckett (1988), La furia della sintassi. La sestina in Italia (1992), La scimmia di Dio. L’emozione della guerra mediale (1996), La lettera che muore. La «letteratura» nel reticolo mediale (2005), L’oscuro scrutare di Philip K. Dick (2007), Un quanto di erotia. Gadda con Freud e Schrödinger (2011; winner Crolla Amato Gadda Prize 2012) and Joyicity. Joyce con McLuhan e Lacan (2013). With the group ResiDante he recorded the compact disc Il fronte interno (2003). He translated Philip K. Dick (A Scanner Darkly, 1993 and 1998) and Samuel Beckett (Watt, 1998; Collected Poems, 1999; Murphy, 2003 and Nohow On, 2008). His last work is the science fiction movie Nei molti mondi (2013). Frasca teaches Comparative Studies at the University of Salerno.


