Le livret rouge

Par Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello nous propose avec "Le livret rouge" (1923) un recueil de cinq nouvelles exceptionelles empreintes de réalisme et d'émotion.

La première et la plus célèbre des histoires, "Le livret rouge", se déroule à Nisias, un village de Sicile. À Nisias, chaque femme peut, si son bébé meurt, accueillir un nouveau-né à l'hospice. Elle reçoit ensuite un carnet rouge, d'une valeur de 6 francs par mois...

Luigi Pirandello est un écrivain italien, poète, nouvelliste, romancier et dramaturge, né le 28 juin 1867 à Agrigente en Sicile, durant une épidémie de choléra, et mort à Rome le 10 décembre 1936. Son œuvre a été récompensée du Prix Nobel de littérature en 1934. 

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: E-BOOKARAMA
• Date de sortie: 11 mars 2023
• ISBN: 9788834114940

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was an Italian playwright, novelist, and poet. Born to a wealthy Sicilian family in the village of Cobh, Pirandello was raised in a household dedicated to the Garibaldian cause of Risorgimento. Educated at home as a child, he wrote his first tragedy at twelve before entering high school in Palermo, where he excelled in his studies and read the poets of nineteenth century Italy. After a tumultuous period at the University of Rome, Pirandello transferred to Bonn, where he immersed himself in the works of the German romantics. He began publishing his poems, plays, novels, and stories in earnest, appearing in some of Italy’s leading literary magazines and having his works staged in Rome. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), an experimental absurdist drama, was viciously opposed by an outraged audience on its opening night, but has since been recognized as an essential text of Italian modernist literature. During this time, Pirandello was struggling to care for his wife Antonietta, whose deteriorating mental health forced him to place her in an asylum by 1919. In 1924, Pirandello joined the National Fascist Party, and was soon aided by Mussolini in becoming the owner and director of the Teatro d’Arte di Roma. Although his identity as a Fascist was always tenuous, he never outright abandoned the party. Despite this, he maintained the admiration of readers and critics worldwide, and was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.