Carlo Emilio Gadda, unfortunately, fell prey to middle school teachers who made him an example of multilingualism and tormented students with the identification of "style levels." Thus his books entered the closet of difficult books. Watler Siti, an Italian writer, literary critic and essayist, analyzes "The Cognition of Pain" by bringing it back to its basic meaning: a plunge into the hells of the unconscious, all the way to the desire for matricide and the power to turn pain into comedy.