by Carlo Emilio Gadda · RL Libri · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788846208200
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«La cognizione del dolore» is the novel by Carlo Emilio Gadda, published by RL Libri in paperback (212 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows Gonzalo Pirobutirro, a misanthrope tormented by a dark malaise and by the memory of his childhood. His resentment centres on his mother, the Signora, whom he considers responsible for his suffering. With prose full of digressions and a tone between ironic and dramatic, Gadda explores solitude, pain and the failure of communication.
Originally published in 1963, it won the Formentor Prize for Letters that year. This edition belongs to the Biblioteca Superpocket collection.
For readers of twentieth-century Italian classic fiction who appreciate demanding prose and tormented characters.
Carlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers who played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.
