La ragione degli altri: Commedia in tre atti

Di Luigi Pirandello

Cara Signora,
mi dispiace dirvelo, ma voi non fate in questa commedia una bella figura. E forse nessuna prima attrice di ruolo che si rispetti, vi avverrà di trovare, che voglia assumersi di rappresentare nella commedia la vostra parte.
Voi non siete soltanto una povera moglie sterile: oltre il bene, il conforto, il presidio dei figliuoli, tante altre cose vi mancano: la grazia, fors’anche la bellezza; e, quanto a maniere — lasciatemelo dire francamente — così povera siete, che dovreste soltanto vivervene appartata e schiva nell’ombra e nel silenzio del vostro irrimediabile dolore. Ma, a un certo punto, ecco che vi forzano, signora, a parlare, ad agire, a far valere le vostre ragioni e il vostro lungo tormento. Che ne segue? Ahimè, il torto più imperdonabile: ve lo dico sillabando: non sapete fare una scena!
Siamo giusti: potete pretendere sul serio che una qualche prima attrice di ruolo che si rispetti, si assuma di rappresentar nella commedia la vostra parte?
 

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: valeriodistefano
• Data di uscita: 13 gen 2023
• ISBN: 9791222051857

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.