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, ...

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 ...

Ibsen and Pirandello represent two pillars of the great bourgeois theatre between the XIX and XX centuries. Their works have always been subject to critical analysis and theatrical representation, in particular, Gengångare ...

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 ...

The long career of Ruggero Ruggeri started in the late Naturalism and finished at the beginning of the 1950s without knowing crisis or setbacks. During this period the old Italian theatre was replaced by a new role acquired ...

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 ...