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who explains the book's importance as the first novel in the Chinese tradition attributable to a single author
Love and death crop up repeatedly as themes in such famous works as Goethe’s “Elf King” and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde
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who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information
The Experience Of Pain Alexander Bennett who explains the book's importanceThe seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict' Italo Calvino At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel, The Experience of Pain. This portrait of a highly educated young man whose anger and frustration frequently erupt in ferocious outbursts directed towards his ageing mother