Acquainted with Grief | Acquainted with Grief

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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

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....

Acquainted with Grief | Acquainted with Grief

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