Nell'albergo è morto un tale

Scritto da Luigi Pirandello

Narrato da Gianluca Testa

Deve aver viaggiato molto, davvero, quell’uomo; devono aver fatto davvero tanto e tanto cammino quelle scarpe: son due povere scarpacce enormi, sformate, scalcagnate, con gli elastici, ai due lati, slabbrati, crepati: chi sa quanta fatica, quali stenti, quanta stanchezza, per quante vie…

Quasi quasi la vecchia signora ha la tentazione di picchiar con le nocche delle dita a quell’uscio. Torna a ritirarsi in camera. I figli tardano a rientrare in albergo. La smania le cresce di punto in punto. Chi sa se sono andati, come le hanno promesso, a guardare il mare, se è tranquillo?

Ma già, come si può vedere da terra, se il mare è tranquillo? il mare lontano, il mare che non finisce mai, l’Oceano… Le diranno che è tranquillo. Come credere a loro? Lui solo, il signore della stanza accanto, potrebbe dirle la verità. Tende l’orecchio; appoggia l’orecchio alla parete, se le riesca d’avvertire di là qualche rumore. Niente. Silenzio. 

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Teatroformattivo
• Data di uscita: 25 feb 2024
• ISBN: 9798868622137

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.