Il fu Mattia Pascal

Scritto da Luigi Pirandello

Narrato da Claudio Carini

Dopo un vortice di disgraziate vicissitudini, Mattia Pascal si ritrova nel Casino' di Montecarlo, dove vince una considerevole somma alla roulette. Durante il viaggio di ritorno legge sul giornale la notizia del proprio suicidio. Decide di approfittare dello scambio di persona per liberarsi di quella esistenza opprimente, e sotto il nome di Adriano Meis inizia una vita libera ed errabonda. Ma ben presto si rende conto di come senza uno stato civile, senza una vera identità, l'esistenza risulti vuota e misera, la finzione diventi insostenibile, senza neanche il diritto di potersi innamorare. Decide quindi inscenare il suicidio della sua seconda finta identità, e torna al paesello. Ma trovando la moglie risposata con il suo migliore amico, si renderà conto di non poter vivere più nemmeno la vita di prima, e si adatterà a stare nell'ombra, ormai per sempre: "il fu Mattia Pascal".

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Recitar Leggendo Audiolibri
• Data di uscita: 30 set 2006
• ISBN: 9781509484317

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was an Italian playwright, novelist, and poet. Born to a wealthy Sicilian family in the village of Cobh, Pirandello was raised in a household dedicated to the Garibaldian cause of Risorgimento. Educated at home as a child, he wrote his first tragedy at twelve before entering high school in Palermo, where he excelled in his studies and read the poets of nineteenth century Italy. After a tumultuous period at the University of Rome, Pirandello transferred to Bonn, where he immersed himself in the works of the German romantics. He began publishing his poems, plays, novels, and stories in earnest, appearing in some of Italy’s leading literary magazines and having his works staged in Rome. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), an experimental absurdist drama, was viciously opposed by an outraged audience on its opening night, but has since been recognized as an essential text of Italian modernist literature. During this time, Pirandello was struggling to care for his wife Antonietta, whose deteriorating mental health forced him to place her in an asylum by 1919. In 1924, Pirandello joined the National Fascist Party, and was soon aided by Mussolini in becoming the owner and director of the Teatro d’Arte di Roma. Although his identity as a Fascist was always tenuous, he never outright abandoned the party. Despite this, he maintained the admiration of readers and critics worldwide, and was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.