by Giovanni Papini · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401431357
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Gog is a novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Papini, originally published in 1931. This Spanish edition, by Plaza & Janés Editores, presents a series of dialogues and satirical portraits of famous people and representative figures of the time, offering a critical and often prophetic vision of the human condition. Through Gog's encounters with various personalities, Papini explores themes such as science, religion, politics, and morality, revealing the contradictions and absurdities of modern society.
Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism.
