Acquainted with Grief (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlo Emilio Gadda
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Antistory
- Time of Work: 1925-1933
- Setting: The mythical city of Pastrufazio in Maradagal, South America
- Principal Characters: Gonzalo Pirobutirro De Eltino, Senora Elisabetta Francois Pirobutirro, Doctor Higueroa
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Doctors, 1920’s, 1930’s, Bereavement or grief, South America or South Americans, Isolation, Neuroses
- Locales: South America
The Novel
Maradagal is a South American country based upon Carlo Emilio Gadda’s native Lombardy, specifically the Brianza region north of Milan. As Acquainted with Grief begins, Maradagal has recently ended a war with neighboring Parapagal, and both countries are experiencing modest economic recoveries. Gonzalo Pirobutirro de Eltino, a middle-aged engineer and writer,lives with his widowed seventy-three-year-old mother, Senora Pirobutirro, in their decaying villa outside the city of Pastrufazio. He has summoned the family doctor to the villa to have a checkup....
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