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La distruzione dell'uomo
La distruzione dell'uomo
La distruzione dell'uomo
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La distruzione dell'uomo

Written by Luigi Pirandello

Narrated by Gaetano Marino

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Pubblicata per la prima volta nelle pagine del Corriere della Sera nel 1912, "La distruzione dell'uomo" è forse una delle novelle più dure tra quelle scritte dal Premio Nobel italiano.
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.
LanguageItaliano
PublisherLA CASE Books
Release dateAug 1, 2018
ISBN9781949685084
La distruzione dell'uomo
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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.

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