I vecchi e i giovani

Written by Luigi Pirandello

Narrated by Massimo De Lorenzo

Girgenti (Agrigento) e Roma tra il 1892 e il 1894. Come dimostra la sconfitta di Roberto Auriti alla corsa al seggio di Girgenti nelle elezioni politiche del 1892, il Risorgimento è ormai sullo sfondo: non è neppure più un titolo di merito. A travolgere la vita della folla di personaggi de "I vecchi e i giovani" – principi difensori delle prerogative della nobiltà latifondista, vescovi reazionari, stanchi ex garibaldini, grandi proprietari borghesi, ingenui capipopolo dei fasci, nobili socialisti ecc, – sono semmai l'esplodere del movimento dei Fasci siciliani (il loro sconosciuto candidato alle elezioni batte il liberale sebbene perda dietro il popolare) e il gravissimo scandalo della Banca Romana, simbolo della stanchezza e perdita di ogni idealità degli ex risorgimentali ora seduti in parlamento. Capaci tuttavia ugualmente di ordinare da Roma la fine nel sangue del nuovo movimento. © 2023 tracce s.r.l.s

• Language: Italiano
• Publisher: tracce.studio
• Release date: May 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9791280409164

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.