by Giovanni Papini · Editura Polirom · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789734632008
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«Gog» is the satirical novel by Giovanni Papini, published by Editura Polirom in paperback (272 pages, in Romanian).
The novel follows Gog, an eccentric millionaire who travels the world seeking experiences to relieve his boredom. His encounters with illustrious figures and charlatans serve Papini for a ferocious satire of modern civilisation, technology and intellectual pretensions, with a cynical, ironic and philosophical tone.
The novel was originally published in 1931. This Polirom edition, in the Top 10+ collection, was published in 2013.
Work for the general public, especially readers of social satire and narrative of ideas.
Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism.
