uno nessuno e centomila by luigi pirandello

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. One, No One and One Hundred Thousand translated into English by William Weaver, 1990, Marsilio ( ISBN 0-94).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.One, None, and a Hundred-Thousand, translated into English by Samuel Putnam, 1933.The Kenyon Review stated that it 'reads more like an essay in metaphysics than a plot-driven narrative,' noting the 'many audience-directed questions poses', emphasizing that 'despite beginning from premises which aren't particularly controversial, proceeds to draw out some very questionable conclusions,' and assessing the book as enjoyable 'precisely to the extent that find themselves agreeing with what Moscarda/Pirandello expounds.' Translations into English TIME described it as 'ingeniously stat and restat' the idea that 'everyone has a multiple personality that if anyone tries to examine deeply his own multiplicity, nonentity, possible unity, he will quickly be called a madman.' Vitangelo Moscarda discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the image of Vitangelo that he himself has constructed and believes himself to be. Finally finished, Uno, Nessuno e Centomila came out in episodes between December 1925 and June 1926 in the magazine Fiera Letteraria. Moscarda one, no one and one hundred thousand.' The pages of the unfinished novel remained on Pirandello's desk for years and he would occasionally take out extracts and insert them into other works only to return, later, to the novel in a sort of uninterrupted compositive circle. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the '.bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life: It is Pirandello's last novel his son later said that it took 'more than 15 years' to write. One, No One and One Hundred Thousand ( Italian: Uno, nessuno e centomila ) is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello.

Uno nessuno e centomila by luigi pirandello