Luigi Pirandello

After all, the "Moscarda" he believed himself to be was different when he was alone, or with his wife, his tenant, or his friends. And, there were hundreds-no, thousands-of additional Moscardas in the minds of everyone who had met or heard of him. Moscarda grappled with this new knowledge: that he was not who he thought he was, nor who anyone else thought he was. And, the people around him? They were not who he thought they were either. So he decided,...

Il romanzo più celebre di Pirandello, incentrato sul tema a lui caro dell'identità.

After all, the "Moscarda" he believed himself to be was different when he was alone, or with his wife, his tenant, or his friends. And, there were hundreds-no, thousands-of additional Moscardas in the minds of everyone who had met or heard of him. Moscarda grappled with this new knowledge: that he was not who he thought he was, nor who anyone else thought he was. And, the people around him? They were not who he thought they were either. So he decided,...

Celebrated title story plus "Little Hut," "Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law," "Citrons from Sicily," "With Other Eyes," "A Voice," and 5 other tales from the 1934 Nobel Prize-winning author.

The Italian playwright's masterful comedy interrogating the meaning of madness is reimagined in this translation by the author of Leopoldstadt. In this meeting of two of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights, Tom Stoppard has reinvigorated Luigi Pirandello's masterpiece exploring the nature of madness and the limits of sanity. After a fall from his horse, an Italian aristocrat believes he is the obscure medieval German emperor Henry IV. After...

Uno, nessuno e centomila, pubblicato come romanzo a puntate nel dicembre 1925 nella rivista La Fiera Letteraria, e in volume soltanto l'anno successivo, è frutto di una lunga gestazione, iniziata nel 1909, quando Pirandello cominciò a scrivere. Ultimo romanzo dello scrittore siciliano, tra i pi famosi in assoluto tra le sue opere, sintesi perfetta e completa del pensiero dell'autore, il "pi amaro di tutti, profondamente umoristico, di scomposizione...

Nota: i proventi derivati da questo audiolibro concorrono a far crescere la biblioteca digitale gratuita di Classici Stranieri.

Nel 1922 Pirandello decide di progettare un ciclo unico che raccolga le novelle in 24 libri di 15 novelle ciascuno, con l'editore fiorentino Bemporad disposto a varare un piano editoriale per riorganizzare l'intero corpus della sua produzione novellistica. Col titolo unificante di Novelle per

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