by Carlo Emilio Gadda · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429735772
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«La coneixença del dolor» is the novel by Carlo Emilio Gadda, published in 1992 by Edicions 62 in paperback (205 pages, in Catalan).
The work, translated into Catalan from the Italian 'La cognizione del dolore', delves into the consciousness of a man exhausted by illness and debts, besieged by memories of a shattered childhood and by the persistence of pain and death.
It belongs to the MOLU s.XX collection - Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Universal Segle XX, number 73. Catalan translation of the original 'La cognizione del dolore' (1963), winner of the Formentor Prize for Literature.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Italian narrative and in universal classics published in Catalan.
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.
