In an article titled Sincerità (Ariel, 1898) Pirandello criticizes the artistic simulation, particularly the theft of other authors’ motifs and ideas. On the same topic Pirandello’s friend Ugo Fleres writes a novel, ...

The essay aims to focus the influence that Luigi Capuana, “verista” inclined to the occult’s fascination, had on Effetti di un sogno interrotto (1936), the last Pirandello’s tale, where dreams become reality, the fantastic ...

Luigi Capuana, atypical verista attracted by occult’s fascination, was the first ever literary model for Pirandello and also contributed at the end of 800th century to lead ideologically the writer from Girgenti on the ...