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Characters and Authors in Luigi Pirandello (Hardcover, New)
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Characters and Authors in Luigi Pirandello (Hardcover, New)
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Luigi Pirandello is best known in the English-speaking world for
his radical challenge to traditional Western theatre with plays
such as Six Characters in Search of an Author. But theatre is just
one manifestation of his experiments with language which led to a
remarkable collection of novels, short stories, and essays as well
as his work for a film industry then in its infancy. This study,
which is based on the view that Pirandello's writings are most
fruitfully discussed in a European context, takes as its
starting-point the author's belief in the primacy of the literary
character in a creative process which is necessarily conflictual.
The book argues that all Pirandello's characters are engaged in a
continual performance which transcends the genre distinction
between narrative and dramatic forms. In this performance it is the
spoken word in which the characters invest most heavily as they
struggle to sustain an identity of their own, tell their
life-stories, and assert themselves before their most prominent
antagonist, the author himself.
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