La carriola

Scritto da Luigi Pirandello

Narrato da Gianluca Testa

In questa celebre novella di Luigi Pirandello, dall’atmosfera paradossale intrisa di amara ironia, il mondo ha imposto al protagonista una maschera: costui è, infatti, obbligato a mostrarsi una persona affidabile, precisa, colta, sicura di sé, delle proprie capacità e possibilità. Il protagonista ci spiega che ogni sua forma, ogni sua maschera è una forma di morte, perché è comunque una maschera. Pirandello, nello scrivere questa novella, intende comunicare che la pace è solo nella follia, che è il sovvertire tutti gli schemi. In questo brano è presente, infatti, la visione di vita pirandelliana, che si caratterizza da una realtà di uomo che non vive ma interpreta una parte; è inoltre pervasa dal pesante incombere di una maschera che non si può togliere perché è vincolante per la riuscita della nostra vita, e che ci porta a un senso di angoscia e solitudine.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Teatroformattivo
• Data di uscita: 16 ott 2023
• ISBN: 9798868640728

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.