The essay deals with Piero Chiara’s method of work, always relying upon the reality, from which the writer takes his characters’ names and the facts described in his short stories and novels. As a specimen of a similar ...

Giancarlo Mazzacurati defined One, No One and a Hundred Thousand, as Pirandello’s testamentary novel, a breathless and more or less conscious experiment of self-analysis as well as of self-therapy». The protagonist’s ...