La camera in attesa

Scritto da Luigi Pirandello

Narrato da Gianluca Testa

 Si dà pur luce ogni mattina a questa camera, quando una delle tre sorelle a turno viene a ripulirla senza guardarsi attorno. L’ombra, tuttavia, appena le persiane e le vetrate della finestra sono richiuse e raccostati gli scuri, si fa subito cruda, come in un sotterraneo; e subito, come se quella finestra non sia stata aperta da anni, il crudo di quest’ombra s’avverte, diventa quasi l’alito sensibile del silenzio sospeso vano sui mobili e gli oggetti, i quali, a lor volta, par che rimangano sgomenti, ogni giorno, della cura con cui sono stati spolverati, ripuliti e rimessi in ordine. Il calendario a muro presso la finestra è certo che rimane col senso dello strappo d’un altro fogliolino, come se gli paja una inutile crudeltà che gli si faccia segnar la data in quell’ombra vana e in quel silenzio. E il vecchio orologio di bronzo, in forma d’anfora, sul piano di marmo del cassettone, pare che avverta la violenza che gli fanno costringendolo a staccare ancora là dentro il suo cupo tic-tac.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Teatroformattivo
• Data di uscita: 29 feb 2024
• ISBN: 9798868774683

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.