Liolà

by Luigi Pirandello, Robert Perroud (Translator)

Cette comédie en trois actes, qui date de 1916, a été écrite par Pirandello dans le parler d'Agrigente. Mi-farce, mi-drame, Liolà montre comment un beau gaillard peut être père de trois enfants sans être marié à personne.

Genres: Plays, Theatre, Italian Literature, 20th Century, Italy

72 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 13, 1916

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Marina Di Clemente · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dopo aver letto 'Liolà' con un po' di perplessità (scusate la rima) ho seguitato la lettura anche di 'Così è se vi pare' e Pirandello come sempre non delude per l'imprevedibilità dei suoi personaggi e del filo caotico delle sue trame, che come funamboli danzano sempre sull'orlo del baratro, oscillando tra la follia e la realtà.

[Christian Molenaar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I must be watching too much Fellini bc somehow I found this little Pirandello comedy from his pre-postmodern era deeply endearing. Italians!!

[K.O · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant play.

[Scull17 · Rating 3 out of 5]

A young guy is impregnating all the girls in the village; he thinks he's a cool dude because he's supporting three of his kids, but who knows how many kids he really has (probably thirty). Then there's this other character (an old guy who's just as creepy as the young guy) who likes to beat his wife in front of the neighbors. It's supposed to be a comedy.

[Patrick Neylan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a play for reading, having been adapted with folk singing to make for a performance piece without which the show lacks that magic. I didn't really warm to any of the characters, whose moral values are steeped in early 20th century Sicily. Possibly one is supposed to warm to Liola because he sings and takes care of his children, but I found him manipulative and morally bankrupt, and his manipulations of the women and old man Simeone seem motivated by little more than ego.

The play won't endear itself to fans of Six Characters In Search of an Author, as there's no post-modernist angle to intrigue and confuse.

[Crepuscolo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liolà e il suo corteo di bambini baccheggianti.

[LoAle24 Lorenza Alessandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sicuramente ho preferito Così è se vi pare.