La distruzione dell'uomo
Written by Luigi Pirandello
Narrated by Gaetano Marino
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
Pirandello ci presenta la terribile storia di Nicola Petix, filosofo misantropo, che vive in una casa popolare meditando sulla società che lo circonda. È disgustato dall'umanità e, soprattutto, dalle donne, colpevoli ai suoi occhi di passare la vita a far figli.
Nella stessa casa popolare vive una povera donna che, dopo 15 aborti spontanei in 19 anni di matrimonio, è intenzionata a portare avanti a tutti i costi la sua sedicesima gravidanza.
Per Petix quella donna rappresenta l'orrore, il non-senso della vita e della condizione umana, tanto che si deciderà ben presto a commettere un crimine orrendo.
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was an Italian playwright, novelist, and poet. Born to a wealthy Sicilian family in the village of Cobh, Pirandello was raised in a household dedicated to the Garibaldian cause of Risorgimento. Educated at home as a child, he wrote his first tragedy at twelve before entering high school in Palermo, where he excelled in his studies and read the poets of nineteenth century Italy. After a tumultuous period at the University of Rome, Pirandello transferred to Bonn, where he immersed himself in the works of the German romantics. He began publishing his poems, plays, novels, and stories in earnest, appearing in some of Italy’s leading literary magazines and having his works staged in Rome. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), an experimental absurdist drama, was viciously opposed by an outraged audience on its opening night, but has since been recognized as an essential text of Italian modernist literature. During this time, Pirandello was struggling to care for his wife Antonietta, whose deteriorating mental health forced him to place her in an asylum by 1919. In 1924, Pirandello joined the National Fascist Party, and was soon aided by Mussolini in becoming the owner and director of the Teatro d’Arte di Roma. Although his identity as a Fascist was always tenuous, he never outright abandoned the party. Despite this, he maintained the admiration of readers and critics worldwide, and was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.
More audiobooks from Luigi Pirandello
Esclusa, L Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIl viaggio Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to La distruzione dell'uomo
Related audiobooks
Il chiodo Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Uno, nessuno e centomila Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leggende Metropolitane Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRacconti (1) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I fratelli Karamazov Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5La Tana Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCanne al vento Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tra donne sole Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cristo si è fermato a Eboli Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Casa desolata Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Martin Eden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5D'Annunzio Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Elogio della Follia Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Miserabili , I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Forse che si forse che no Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa Sonata a Kreutzer - La morte di Ivan Il'ic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDopo il divorzio Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa moglie e il marito Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelitto e castigo Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Il giro di vite Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ivanhoe Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5La morte addosso Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Racconti del mistero e del terrore Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5H. P. Lovecraft – Storie di Paura vol IV Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Don Camillo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDecameron (Novelle scelte) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIl Processo Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5La Metamorfosi Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5La coscienza di Zeno Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Guerra e Pace - Versione integrale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Short Stories For You
Don Camillo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa morte addosso Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gente di Dublino Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa Tana Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa trappola Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5La cocca di papà - Racconto erotico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRacconti del mistero e del terrore Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5La stagista - 4 brevi racconti erotici Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUna cena molto originale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIl colore venuto dallo spazio Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Il Tuttofare - e 10 brevi racconti erotici in collaborazione con Erika Lust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLe fiabe di Natale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIl diavolo e l'abisso e altri racconti Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsL'imbecille Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIl maschio alfa - Racconto erotico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScialle nero Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5La MILF - 10 brevi racconti erotici di B. J. Hermansson Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLuoghi proibiti: l’autobus - Breve racconto erotico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDall'ignoto Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5L’invito - Breve racconto erotico Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Il massaggiatore - Racconto erotico Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5L'anno di don Camillo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsL'ultima giornata Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIntenzioni maliziose - Racconto erotico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAccadde al ponte di Owl Creek Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5La strana casa nella nebbia Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Il massaggio - Breve racconto erotico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIl Natale del consigliere Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Scambisti - Breve racconto erotico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmore fraterno - Racconto erotico breve Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reviews for La distruzione dell'uomo
2 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Novella dal sapore amaro. Ricorda al lettore quanto si può diventare presuntuosi nel ritenere che gli altri vivono per vivere, soprattutto se si guarda il mondo da una finestra di casa.