Luigi Pirandello
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Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is a metatheatrical drama by Luigi Pirandello. Viewed as an important work of absurdist literature, the play was a critical failure when it was first, staged in Rome. Revised by its author and bolstered by successful performances in New York City, Six Characters in Search of an Author has been, recognized as a pioneering examination of the nature of creativity, the relationship of the director and actors...
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After all, the "Moscarda" he believed himself to be was different when he was alone, or with his wife, his tenant, or his friends. And, there were hundreds-no, thousands-of additional Moscardas in the minds of everyone who had met or heard of him.
Moscarda grappled with this new knowledge: that he was not who he thought he was, nor who anyone else thought he was. And, the people around him? They were not who he thought they were either.
So he decided,...
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Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904) è uno dei romanzi pi importanti di Luigi Pirandello e del Novecento. Racconta la storia di un uomo in trappola, prigioniero di un matrimonio infelice e di un'esistenza provinciale e senza prospettive. Tutto cambia quando la sorte gli regala una grossa vincita al casinò di Montecarlo, proprio mentre un annegato nel suo podere viene scambiato per lui. A Roma, sotto il falso nome di Adriano Meis, Mattia proverà a ricominciare...
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Uno, nessuno e centomila, pubblicato come romanzo a puntate nel dicembre 1925 nella rivista La Fiera Letteraria, e in volume soltanto l'anno successivo, è frutto di una lunga gestazione, iniziata nel 1909, quando Pirandello cominciò a scrivere. Ultimo romanzo dello scrittore siciliano, tra i pi famosi in assoluto tra le sue opere, sintesi perfetta e completa del pensiero dell'autore, il "pi amaro di tutti, profondamente umoristico, di scomposizione...
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) explored such themes as the relativity of truth, the vanity and necessity of illusion, and the instability of human personality. In this famous play, an expressionistic parable set in a small Italian town in the early twentieth century, Pirandello skillfully dramatizes these issues. The observer Laudisi derides the townspeople for their insistence on...
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Luigi Pirandello was an Italian writer and playwright, author of enormously successful works such as "The Late Mattia Pascal" and "The Outcast." "The Late Mattia Pascal" tells the story of the titular character who, after successive misfortunes in life, culminating in an unwanted marriage, has the opportunity to start his life anew after winning a fortune in France and, at the same time, is declared dead in his hometown. Returning to Italy, he decides...
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After all, the "Moscarda" he believed himself to be was different when he was alone, or with his wife, his tenant, or his friends. And, there were hundreds-no, thousands-of additional Moscardas in the minds of everyone who had met or heard of him.
Moscarda grappled with this new knowledge: that he was not who he thought he was, nor who anyone else thought he was. And, the people around him? They were not who he thought they were either.
So he decided,...
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Pirandello pone en escena una irremediable amnesia de las cosas en la ficción. La tragedia está enmascarada por la risa irónica frente a un mundo que este autor consideró como un desierto de sentido, un espacio ilimitado que ninguna coordenada podría reorganizar. Este escritor resalta por la cuidadosa creación de una poética. La presente antología de ensayos se compone casi por entero de textos que el autor publicó en su vejez; son al mismo...
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The Deceased Mattia Pascal is a novel in which Luigi Pirandello explores the mysteries of identity. It tells the story of a man who, tired of his life as an archivist and marriage, decides to travel to Monte Carlo, where luck allows him to make a huge fortune in the casino. It is on returning home that he learns that, by mistake, he was considered dead. He decides to start a new life with a fortune and another name, thinking in this way to free himself...
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The Italian playwright's masterful comedy interrogating the meaning of madness is reimagined in this translation by the author of Leopoldstadt.
In this meeting of two of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights, Tom Stoppard has reinvigorated Luigi Pirandello's masterpiece exploring the nature of madness and the limits of sanity.
After a fall from his horse, an Italian aristocrat believes he is the obscure medieval German emperor Henry IV. After...
13) L'umorismo
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In questo saggio, pubblicato del 1908 e significativamente dedicato alla memoria di Mattia Pascal, Pirandello elabora i fondamenti della sua desolata visione del mondo, nonché della sua poetica. Dopo aver illustrato le varie definizioni di umorismo, Pirandello polemizza apertamente con Croce sostenendo la necessità della riflessione nell'arte. La sua presenza ha funzione critica sulle prime impressioni e sul sentimento, filtrando il processo creativo...
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In the enigmatic realm of Luigi Pirandello's "Henry IV, A Tragedy in Three Acts," a masquerade of madness and reality unfolds. Set in a secluded villa, a group of aristocrats gathers to witness the spectacle of a man who has lived for twenty years as the medieval emperor Henry IV. As the boundaries between truth and illusion blur, the characters grapple with the nature of identity, the weight of the past, and the fragility of the human psyche. Prepare...
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The protagonist, Mattia Pascal, finds that his promising youth has, through misfortune or misdeed, dissolved into a dreary dead-end job and a miserable marriage. His inheritance and the woman he loved are stolen from him by the same man, his eventual wife and mother-in-law badger him constantly, and his twin daughters, neglected by their mother, can provide him with joy only until an untimely death takes them. Death robs him even of his beloved mother.
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The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in a vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello, as well as Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg, and Grazia Deledda, these literary gems are filled with ancient churches, trains whistling through the countryside,...