The Experience of Pain by Carlo Emilio Gadda Paperback Book 9780241706992

'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict' Italo Calvino Gonzalo is a highly educated man living alone with his ageing, widowed mother in a town scarred by war. He rages against the world. The doctor tells him to get out more. But his frustration starts to erupt in increasingly ferocious and unexpected ways, with disastrous consequences. Set in a fictional South American country, Carlo Emilio Gadda's intensely personal, visceral novel was written at the height of Fascist rule in Italy, tearing apart language itself to explore the violence and chaos of the darkest of times.Translated by Richard Dixon'His best work . . . among the most powerful passages in 20th-century Italian fiction' Tim Parks, London Review of Books

Genre: Media > Books > Print Books > Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Pages: 256 Year of Publication: 2024 Classification: Media > Books > Print Books > Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Weight: 314 g Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Country of Publication: United Kingdom Package Dimension Length: 19.8 cm Package Dimension Width: 13 cm Package Dimension Height: 1.7 cm ISBN: 9780241706992