The Stereotypical Gag in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s and Pietro Germi’s Detective Stories

This article analyzes two comic incidents portrayed in Gadda’s That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana and its adaptation The Facts of Murder by Pietro Germi. We argue that inclusion what we term ‘stereotypical gags’ detective novel functions as a modernist device brings about distancing audience acts to distort boundaries genre. show how stereotypical gag both foregrounds backgrounds authorial humorous agency results satire parody, respectively. In first case, explicitly endorses clichés mocks along with audience’s societal conventions. second humour generates less obvious incongruity respect discourse genre, resulting parody through which trust values traditional story.