test L’APPARENZA DEL SOGNO E DELL’AMORE NELLA MORSA DELLA REALTÀ: LA CONDIZIONE DELLA DONNA E DELL’UMANITÀ NELL’OPERA DI LUIGI PIRANDELLO E NELLE SUE RIVISITAZIONI|ΠΑΡΑΒΑΣΙΣ/PARABASIS

L’APPARENZA DEL SOGNO E DELL’AMORE NELLA MORSA DELLA REALTÀ: LA CONDIZIONE DELLA DONNA E DELL’UMANITÀ NELL’OPERA DI LUIGI PIRANDELLO E NELLE SUE RIVISITAZIONI

Εξώφυλλο Παράβασις Τόμ. 20 / Cover Parabasis Vol. 20
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Published: Nov 24, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681//.43024
Giuseppe Varone
Abstract

The essay highlights how Luigi Pirandello’s work, actualized in its various reinterpretations over the course of the 2000s, of which only a few are given as examples, is a reflection of the contradictions of the world and humanity, embodied mostly in the characters: unhappy individuals without ideals, placed in a precise era and social context, the petty and middle bourgeoisie of the early 20th century, though endowed with a universal character, capable of transcending time and historical fact. All of Pirandello’s dramatic art responds to the desire to bring to the page and the theatrical stage such an insight: the conception of existence as an enduring disagreement between face and mask, thus between reality and fiction. And the first of all feelings to fall into the grip of appearances is love, which, like the dream, in the mechanisms of bourgeois social life loses its naturalness and becomes illusion and condemnation. The appearance of love, therefore, provides the possibility of reading the world in the terms of a perennial conflict between ideal and real, and it is noted how the dreamlike universe concretely affects reality, with traumatic consequences that lack a rational explanation: not coincidentally, madness for Pirandello is a long dream and the real mystery of the world is the visible.

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Author Biography
Giuseppe Varone

Giuseppe Varone is postdoctoral researcher and conducts studies on Italian and French Literature of the second half of the Twentieth century for the University of Tor Vergata and the University of Poitiers and is a member of Centro Studi “Massimo Bontempelli” – MA.R.WI.T. He has curated contemporary art exhibitions, published artist biographies and literary non-fiction texts, including Le mappe letterarie della città perduta (2006) and I sensi e la ragione. L’ideologia della letteratura dell’ultimo Vittorini (2015). Other interventions, mainly oriented towards Italian literature between the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, with specific regard to the affinities between the arts, appear in collective volumes –such Conversazione con Vittorini (2018), Il “barlume che vacilla” (2016), La comunità incoffessabile (2011) and Croce tra noi (2002)– and in acts of national and international conferences –Il cibo nell’arte contemporanea, edited with Franco Zangrilli nel 2019, Food and Contemporary italian writers (2019), «Odisseico peregrinare» (2017), Passione Savinio (2013), Il racconto del Risorgimento nell’Italia nuova (2012) and La letteratura degli Italiani. Gli Italiani della letteratura (2012)–, as well as in various specialized magazines, such as «Esperienze Letterarie», «Mosaico Italiano», «Campi Immaginabili», «Studi Desanctisiani», «Visual History», «Studi Rinascimentali», «Rivista di Letteratura Teatrale», «Strumenti critici», «Studi Novecenteschi», «Otto/Novecento» and «Il Lettore di Provincia», among others. In 2019 he published his first novel, Delle cose più belle, followed in 2021 by L’estate perfetta, the first two volumes of a trilogy that will end with La gentilezza, wich will appear in the autumn of 2024.