Di Anna Tieppo. Pirandello teaches us that being ourselves would imply accepting the burden of confrontation, debating, facing conflicts and experiencing their damage, questioning one’s own ideas with the danger that they may be demolished. […]
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«Examining her face, Anna noted instantly how little it resembled her own. In that same moment, the question rose from her heart of how it could be that her husband, who loved this woman, this […]
«The disarray in which he had always left his books, scattered around or piled up here and there on chairs, on the floor, on the coffee tables or on the shelves, now made him despair. […]
«What he was doing in life was unknown. Perhaps he didn’t even know himself. He was simply there… He probably didn’t even suspect that one could live differently or that, by living differently, one could […]
«In ecstasy, he fell back so that he sat on his load, in front of the hole. There she was, there she was, the Moon… The Moon was there! The Moon! And without realizing it, […]
«Ah, if that bat hadn’t been there! But there it was! There it was! The audience wasn’t aware of it, all focused on the performance; but there it was, as if, deliberately, it had taken […]
«”Why then,” continued the fat man, “should we consider the feelings of our children when they are twenty? Isn’t it natural that at their age they should consider the love for their Country (I am […]
«It seemed that his blinders had suddenly fallen off, and in a moment the spectacle of life opened wide all around him.. It was as if his ears had suddenly become unblocked, allowing him to […]
«Yes, sir. Because you do not believe in my power! But luckily others do, don’t you know? Everyone, everyone believes in it! And there are lots of gambling houses in town! All I will have […]
«He was an old, crooked man, with twisted, knotty joints, like an ancient Saracen olive stump. It took a hook to get a word out of him. A sullenness, or sadness rooted in that deformed […]