The Experience of Pain

<''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<>

Product details

• Authors: Carlo Emilio Gadda, Gadda Carlo Emilio
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9780241706992
• ISBN: 978-0-241-70699-2
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; South America, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Politics, c 1930 to c 1939, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary