1. Why characters are given multiple names.
2. Why Gadda seems to aim for the muddled.
3. Many of the cultural references.
4. What Gadda is trying to accomplish with these sexual references.
5. The appeal of reading about sort of gross, but everyday gross, characters.
6. The genre of the book- are we in a mystery? A book on philosophy?
7. Many of the Mussolini references.
a. This book was mysterious in a way that rejected me from it’s text instead of in a way that left me wanting more.
8. What this book would be without Calvino’s introduction.
a. Why Calvino reveals the end of the book in the introduction (that future teller!)
9. Why there is a dick on the cover.
10. Why the investigation does not happen until the second half of the
2. Why Gadda seems to aim for the muddled.
3. Many of the cultural references.
4. What Gadda is trying to accomplish with these sexual references.
5. The appeal of reading about sort of gross, but everyday gross, characters.
6. The genre of the book- are we in a mystery? A book on philosophy?
7. Many of the Mussolini references.
a. This book was mysterious in a way that rejected me from it’s text instead of in a way that left me wanting more.
8. What this book would be without Calvino’s introduction.
a. Why Calvino reveals the end of the book in the introduction (that future teller!)
9. Why there is a dick on the cover.
10. Why the investigation does not happen until the second half of the