C'è qualcuno che ride

Di Luigi Pirandello

C'è qualcuno che ride è una delle più famose e controverse novelle di Luigi Pirandello. Fu pubblicata nelle Novelle per un anno.
Durante una strana festa, che somiglia quasi ad un funerale pur non essendolo, si sente una voce che ride. La tensione, insieme al clima lugubre, che si percepisce è data dal fatto che alcune persone sono nascoste non si sa dove a discutere qualcosa di segreto, a prendere una "grave decisione"...

Luigi Pirandello (Girgenti, 28 giugno 1867 – Roma, 10 dicembre 1936) è stato un drammaturgo, scrittore e poeta italiano, insignito del Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1934. Per la sua produzione, le tematiche affrontate e l'innovazione del racconto teatrale è considerato tra i più importanti drammaturghi del XX secolo. Tra i suoi lavori spiccano diverse novelle e racconti brevi (in lingua italiana e siciliana) e circa quaranta drammi, l'ultimo dei quali incompleto.
 

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Passerino
• Data di uscita: 12 gen 2020
• ISBN: 9788835357834

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.