Gadda Carlo Emilio. - La Cognizione del Dolore. Prima Edizione. - 1963

Gadda Carlo Emilio. The Cognition of Pain. Turin, Einaudi, April 1963. First Edition. Original edition in the April 1963 print run of the great Milanese writer's literary masterpiece. A tragically autobiographical tale in which a neurotic and misanthropic engineer lives in a villa with his mother, who is murdered under mysterious circumstances. For the first time appears the dialogue titled “The Publisher Asks Forgiveness for the Recovery by Invoking the Author,” justifying the publication of the novel twenty years after its first draft. Binding in modern hardcover. Illustrated dust jacket. Dimensions 22x14 cm, 223 pages. Excellent condition.