The Experience of Pain de Gadda Carlo Emilio
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Date de parution : 10.2024
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 256
Résumé : <''The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict'' Italo Calvino <br><br>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.<br><br>Translated by Richard Dixon<br><br>''His best work . . . among the most powerful passages in 20th-century Italian fiction'' Tim Parks, London Review of Books<>
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 256
Résumé : <''The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict'' Italo Calvino <br><br>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.<br><br>Translated by Richard Dixon<br><br>''His best work . . . among the most powerful passages in 20th-century Italian fiction'' Tim Parks, London Review of Books<>
| Réf. | 001-9780241706992 |
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| EAN | 9780241706992 |
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