Il turno

Di Luigi Pirandello

"Il turno" non è tra le opere più conosciute di Luigi Pirandello ed è considerata a torto un'opera minore. Un romanzo breve che risale al 1902 dove possiamo trovare tutti gli elementi ricorrenti pirandelliani come la maestria dell'intreccio, l'ironia, l'analisi del carattere dei personaggi, la loro descrizione, la loro personalità, i loro pensieri più intimi, le loro maschere tristi o ridicole. Ambientato in una Sicilia di fine Ottocento, il libro punta subito il dito su uno dei costumi caratteristici dell'epoca: il matrimonio combinato. Graffiante, sottile e beffarda, la penna dello scrittore dipinge una società che si lascia facilmente attirare dai beni materiali quasi essi fossero l'unica strada d'accesso alla felicità ma soffocano i sentimenti e che ha come attori dei personaggi imperdibili che spaziano in un caleidoscopio di sfumature. Tipico esempio dell'umorismo pirandelliano, scettico e mordace di fronte agli assurdi casi dell'esistenza, verso cui però dimostra al tempo stesso un esasperato compiacimento.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: GAEditori
• Data di uscita: 5 feb 2019
• ISBN: 9788832509113

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.

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