![]() ![]() ![]() The fifteen years to complete this novel speaks to how much care, attention and reflection Pirandello gave the subject, his lifelong preoccupation: the nature of identity.Īh, the nature of identity. His output was phenomenal – during those same fifteen years, at the peak of his creative powers, he wrote hundreds of short stories as well as dozens of plays. And it isn’t as if Pirandello ordinarily worked at a methodically slow pace. Remarkably, it’s just the opposite: Luigi Pirandello worked on this short novel on and off over the course of fifteen years, beginning at age forty-two and ending at age fifty-seven. One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand is so well-constructed, each section flowing smoothly into the next, it’s as if the author penned all 160 pages in a single, uninterrupted creative burst. Luigi Pirandello (1867 - 1936) – Nobel Prize winning Italian playwright, novelist, poet and short story writer, perhaps best known for such outstanding plays as Six Characters in Search of an Author. ![]() Com’erano per me Marco di Dio e sua moglie Diamante Un romanzo epocale, che tutti dovrebbero leggere. Dalla forma irregolare del naso alla deriva del significato della vita. Piccole ossessioni che diventano oscillazioni dell'essere. La dissoluzione dell'io nel caledoscopio della vita di ogni giorno. Il romanzo chiave del premio Nobel Luigi Pirandello. ![]()
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