The Experience of Pain (Italian: La cognizione del dolore) is an Italian novel by Carlo Emilio Gadda. First translated into English in 1969 by William Weaver as Acquainted with Grief, it was republished in 2017 by Penguin Books as The Experience of Pain, translated by Richard Dixon. It has been described as one of the great works of twentieth century literature, comparable with James Joyce, and in line with the tradition of Rabelais, Sterne and Diderot. Source: Wikipedia (en)