Senza malizia

Scritto da Luigi Pirandello

Narrato da Gianluca Testa

Quando Spiro Tempini, con le lunghe punte dei baffetti insegate come due capi di spago lì pronti per passar nel foro praticato da una lesina, facendo a leva di continuo con le dita sui polsini inamidati per tirarseli fuor delle maniche della giacca; timido e smilzo, miope e compito, chiese debitamente alla maggiore delle quattro sorelle Margheri la mano di Iduccia, la minore, e se ne andò con quelle piote ben calzate ma fuori di squadra e indolenzite, inchinandosi più e più volte di seguito; tanto Serafina, quanto Carlotta, quanto Zoe, quanto Iduccia stessa rimasero per un pezzo quasi intronate.

            Ormai non s’aspettavano più che a qualcuno potesse venire in mente di chieder la mano d’una di loro. Dopo essersi rassegnate a tante gravi sciagure, alla rovina improvvisa e alla conseguente morte per crepacuore del padre, poi a quella della madre, e quindi a dover trarre profitto dei buoni studii compiuti per arricchire squisitamente la loro educazione signorile, s’erano anche rassegnate a rimaner zitelle.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Teatroformattivo
• Data di uscita: 21 apr 2024
• ISBN: 9798882438707

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.