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by Giovanni Papini · Editura Polirom · tapa blanda · 272 pages
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Gog es una de las obras más satíricas y brillantes de Giovanni Papini, presentada en esta edición de la colección Top 10+ de Polirom. La historia sigue a Gog, un millonario extravagante y hastiado que viaja por el mundo buscando experiencias que puedan aliviar su aburrimiento crónico. A través de sus encuentros, el autor despliega una galería de personajes que van desde figuras ilustres de la literatura y la ciencia hasta charlatanes grotescos. Escrita originalmente en 1931, esta novela ofrece una crítica mordaz a la civilización moderna, la tecnología y las pretensiones intelectuales de la época. Es una obra fundamental para entender el pensamiento provocador de Papini, donde se mezclan el cinismo, la filosofía y una observación aguda de la naturaleza humana.
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.
