De leerschool van het lijden

Somewhat special, somewhat very special. Gadda seems unable to tell a story. Descriptions, enumerations, adjectives, endless descriptions take the place of the story, if there has been a story to start with, or that would lead somewhere, beware!
Sometimes this is hilarious, violent, powerful,

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breathtaking. But it's also boring, ennoying and relentlessly slowing down your reading. It also makes you wonder sometimes, after another ten pages: what the f*ck have i been reading the last half an hour?
And then, on the verge of despair, there is chapter 5: such an intense personal description, such a beauty of a portrait. Yes, Gadda can write. Yes, it's autobiographic and thus moving. But please, Carlo, you could have written a complete book like this and you didn't!

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