{"product_id":"the-experience-of-pain-by-carlo-emilio-gadda","title":"The Experience of Pain by Carlo Emilio Gadda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eItalo 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘His best work . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. . among the most powerful passages in 20th-century Italian fiction’ Tim Parks, London Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback | Publication: 31 Oct 2024, Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241706992 | Extent: 256 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57564237136254,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780241706992.jpg?v=1781699037","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/the-experience-of-pain-by-carlo-emilio-gadda","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}