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  • Chapter 29 - Fascism

  • from Part V - Culture and Society
  • Edited by Patricia Gaborik, Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica ‘Silvio d'Amico’
  • Book:
    Pirandello in Context
    Published online:
    14 March 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2024, pp 235-242

  • Summary

    The chapter focuses on a controversial element of Pirandello’s life and career, namely, his relationship to Italian Fascism and its head of government, Benito Mussolini. Taking Pirandello’s outspoken and loyal adhesion to the Fascist government as a matter of historical fact and arguing that true “faith” in its ethos and professional opportunism on Pirandello’s part were not mutually exclusive, the essay focuses on the personal, cultural, and professional reasons for Pirandello’s membership in the party and then moves on to discuss how contemporaries viewed the author’s work in relation to Fascism’s ideological precepts. Because he was so famous, regime intellectuals were keen to claim Pirandello as their own, but whether they read his work as compatible with their world view had much to do with its philosophical bent, as interpreted through the formulations of Adriano Tilgher. If they perceived Pirandello as nihilistic, they tended to doubt his Fascism, but if they read his work as celebrating the victory of life over form, they judged it as representative of the spirit of the so-called new era.

  • Preface

  • Edited by Patricia Gaborik, Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica ‘Silvio d'Amico’
  • Book:
    Pirandello in Context
    Published online:
    14 March 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2024, pp xxi-xxviii

  • Summary

    The preface highlights the extent to which Luigi Pirandello, most famous for his play Six Characters in Search of an Author, was a multifaceted writer successful in various genres. In addition to introducing the main themes of the volume, it places some of the key questions in Pirandellian studies – philosophical relativism, metatheatre, the author’s purported cerebralism, and his relationship with the Fascist regime – in the context of the period’s theatre history, literary developments, and Pirandello’s life and career experiences. It finally shows why Pirandello’s influence was so transversal in his century and continues to be into our own and discusses recent advances in Pirandello studies.

  • Chapter 12 - Massimo Bontempelli

  • from Part III - Interlocutors
  • Edited by Patricia Gaborik, Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica ‘Silvio d'Amico’
  • Book:
    Pirandello in Context
    Published online:
    14 March 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2024, pp 95-102

  • Summary

    This chapter treats Pirandello’s relationship with his good friend, fellow writer, and collaborator on the Teatro d’Arte, Massimo Bontempelli. It addresses the aesthetic and political views and life experiences that united them and reframes the dominant notion of early twentieth-century Italian playwrights as lesser pirandellisti. Describing their influence as mutual, the chapter explores both authors’ treatment of myth and the modern masses in works including The Festival of Our Lord of the Ship, The Mountain Giants, Nostra Dea, and Valòria. Finally, it covers Bontempelli’s magisterial analysis of his friend’s writing in the eulogy Pirandello, o del candore.

Pirandello in Context
  • Edited by Patricia Gaborik
  • Published online:
    14 March 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2024
  • For students of Luigi Pirandello's life and works, this volume provides a multi-faceted view spanning the many genres in which he wrote, from poetry and essays to fiction and drama. It gives a true sense of Pirandello's remarkable sensitivity to place – from his native Sicily to Germany and Latin America – and of how his perspective was shaped by a wide range of interlocutors with varying professional backgrounds, from contemporary philosophers to fellow playwrights like Bernard Shaw, directors like Max Reinhardt and the actress Marta Abba. Diverse contributors explore the sheer genre-bending originality of Pirandello's humor, metatheatre, and fantastic tales, and reveal how profound shifts in society, culture, and politics in his time – Freud, Futurism, Fascism – conditioned not just his thought but also his meteoric rise to fame. A final section is dedicated to Pirandello's legacy in literature and drama throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

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