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L'illustre estinto e altre novelle

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L’estro ironico non cede di fronte alla morte: ‘L’illustre estinto’ è la prima di sei novelle di argomento funebre, storie di funerali, bare e camere ardenti, che Pirandello però tratta a modo suo, con dissacrante gusto per l’umorismo.
I protagonisti di queste storie infatti - moribondi, morti o vedovi, dall’onorevole Ramberti che si consola della prossima fine sognando esequie solenni fino ai due amanti che si compiacciono degli alati epitaffi che hanno dedicato ai coniugi defunti - sono esposti agli ultimi feroci scherzi del destino, che, beffardo fino in fondo e anche oltre, si accanisce a capovolgere ridicolmente i loro progetti e rendere grottesche le loro ipocrisie.

63 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1995

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Luigi Pirandello

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Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.

He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"

Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.

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