A masterful collection by a literary giant of the past century,
rendered by one of our most esteemed Italian translators Regarded
as one of Europe's great modernists, Pirandello was also a master
storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a
remarkable sense of the crushing burdens of class, gender, and
social conventions. Set in the author's birthplace of Sicily, where
the arid terrain and isolated villages map the fragile interior
world of his characters, and in Rome, where modern life threatens
centuries-old traditions, these original stories are sun baked with
the deep lore of Italian folktales. In "The Jar," a broken
earthenware pot pits its owner, a quarrelsome landholder, against a
clever inventor of a mysterious glue. "The Dearly Departed" tells
the story of a young widow and her new husband on their honeymoon,
haunted at every turn by the sly visage of the deceased. The
scorned lover, the despondent widow, the intransigent bureaucrat,
the wretched peasant-Pirandello's characters expose the human
condition in all its fatalism, injustice, and raw beauty. For
lovers of Calvino and Pasolini, these picturesque stories preserve
a memory of an Italy long gone, but one whose recurring concerns
still speak to us today.
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