Gadda’s ‘Pasticciaccio’ and the Knotted Posthuman Household

Possessed

“…To cure the ailing bibliomaniac, Boulard's wife and doctor devised a plan; they invited a vendor to set up a stall and call out his wares just below the patient's window. 60 The siren's call gave Boulard the strength needed to rise from bed; he visited the stall and joyfully returned to his old ways.…”

“…59 The coherence of De Amicis's list is not threatened by logical impasses that develop from elements that work their way out of the plane of denotation to distort the language that would contain them, as in the "subversive" rhetorical fi gure of hypallage; rather, it conforms to what Umberto Eco calls the "poetics of etcetera." 60 Instead of (or in addition to) an overview of the multiplicity conveyed, "everything cast off in the turbulent waters of the human condition," the poetics of etcetera involves the use of a catalog that is ample, but that appears synecdochic; a metonym of even greater multitudes. 61 Orlando's symptomatically monumental Obsolete Objects offers copious examples of the tendency of brokendown objects to accumulate in literature in the form of lists.…”

“…incubated and born in the originative millennia of the world." 60 The jewels are likened to "frightened animals" or "ladybirds who fold their wings." They are unmasked lies, mysteriosophic candy, fabulous caramels.…”

“…As such, our living space was occupied by things waiting to be used and thus 'not wasted.'" 60 Transformed into intrinsic objects on display in a gallery space, Zhao's household effects-like Jill's coffee table pumpkin-are no longer caught in a time of suspense, awaiting some future use. Jill's hoard was sacrifi ced to normative ideas of hygiene and economy; the choices she saw embodied in expired food have all been made; what remains is the episode, a lot of waste, and one proud decorative gourd.…”

“…Abeille, Louis Paul, 8 "Adalgisa, L'" (Gadda),145 , Gogol's influence on, 150 -51 , 156 Adorno, Theodor, 58 "Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, The" (Conan Doyle), 10 ,112 ,120 Agamben,Giorgio,111 ,122 ,162 Agency,of objects,[16][17][19][20]clutter and the disavowal of,44 ,51 Alcohol,collecting and,[38][39]Guido,126 Ambivalence,obsessions and,6 ,16 ; fetishistic disavowal and, 6 , 44 American Psychiatric Association, diagnostic criteria of "hoarding disorder," 5 -7 . ( See also DSM-5 ) Amour fou, L' (Breton) [26][27]31 ,60 ,116 Arrighi,Cletto,[78][79][80]81 ,93 ,102 Atget,Eugène,56 ,63 ,64 ,65 ,66 ,67 ,68 ,83 ,[85][86]108…”