Tutto per bene

Scritto da Luigi Pirandello

Narrato da Gianluca Testa

La signorina Silvia Ascensi, venuta a Roma per ottenere il trasferimento dalla Scuola normale di Perugia in altra sede – qualunque e dovunque fosse, magari in Sicilia, magari in Sardegna – si rivolse per ajuto al giovane deputato del collegio, onorevole Marco Verona, che era stato discepolo devotissimo del suo povero babbo, il professor Ascensi dell’Università di Perugia, illustre fisico, morto da un anno appena, per uno sciagurato accidente di gabinetto.

            Era sicura che il Verona, conoscendo bene i motivi per cui ella voleva andar via dalla città natale, avrebbe fatto valere in suo favore la grande autorità che in poco tempo era riuscito ad acquistarsi in Parlamento.

            Il Verona, difatti, la accolse non solo cortesemente, ma con vera benevolenza. Ebbe finanche la degnazione di ricordarle le visite che, da studente, egli aveva fatto al compianto professore, perché ad alcune di queste visite, se non s’ingannava, ella era stata presente, giovinetta allora, ma non tanto piccolina, se già – ma sicuro! – se già faceva da segretaria al babbo…

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Teatroformattivo
• Data di uscita: 27 mar 2024
• ISBN: 9798882201219

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.