Gabriele Frasca
Novecento in Saggio | Harvard 2015 Edition
Early Career Scholarly Work on 20thC Italian Creative Prose
Previous Winners Panel Judge
Gabriele Frasca, born in Naples in 1957, is an eclectic writer, author of essays, novels, poetry and plays who might be described as an experimental formalist, if those words weren’t quite inadeguate.
Gabriele has published the following collections of poems: Rame (1984; expanded 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 – Overall Winner of the 2012 edition of Crolla Amato Gadda), Joyicity. Joyce con McLuhan e Lacan (2013) and Lo spopolatoio. Beckett con Dante e Cantor (2014).
He recorded with the group ResiDante 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). Among his more recent works, the science fiction movie Nei molti mondi (2013).
Gabriele teaches Comparative Studies at the University of Salerno.
