The study is the first to engage in a detailed examination of imagery in the works of the Milanese engineer, philosopher, and writer Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973). It explores different kinds of imagery in Gadda's letters, in his texts on poetology, literary criticism, and art criticism, and in his novels »La cognizione del dolore« and »Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana«. Gadda's style is notable for its elaborate descriptions and springs from radical epistemological skepticism. In his writing, he ranges from the satirical distortion of reality to the a-mimetic literary work of art.