Characters and Authors in Luigi Pirandello
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 January 1998
- ISBN 9780198151760
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 225x145x20 mm
- Weight 458 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) 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. This book argues for the centrality of the character in all of Pirandello's writings - novels, short stories, and essays as well as plays. It explores the different ways in which his fictional and dramatic characters struggle to sustain an indentity of their own, tell their life-stories, and assert themselves before their most prominent antagonist, the author himself.
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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.
This book makes an important contribution to a recent trend in criticism of Luigi Pirandello .../ Pirandello, to be sure, wrote repeatedly, obsessively, in various combinations of comedy, tragedy and farce, about the volubility of life in comparison with the fixity of art.../ Among the book's many strengths is its careful linking of these and other aspects of Pirandello's work, .../ The problematic issue of his public support for the Fascist regime, sidestepped by many critics, is directly confronted and intelligently discussed.
Table of Contents:
Note on Translations and Sources
Real and Implied Authors
The Rise of the Character: Six Characters and the Drama of Creativity
Self and Other in Society: Gossip, Shame, and Scandal
Configurations of Identity: The Family's Undoing
Narrative Space and the Multiplying Self: The Case of Uno, nessuno e centomila
Pirandello's Philosophers
The Author as Director: Characters and Actors
Performing Women
Bibliography
Index
