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Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba /

In February 1925, the 58-year-old world-famous playwright Luigi Pirandello met Marta Abba, an unknown, beautiful actress less than half his age, and fell in love with her. She was to become, until his death in December 1936, not only his confidante but also his inspiring muse and artistic collaborat...

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Autor principal: Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Ortolani, Benito (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Edición:Princeton Legacy Library edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Introduction --  |t Editor's Remarks --  |t Chronology --  |t The Short Note of 1925 --  |t Letters of 1926 from Rome --  |t Letters of 1928 from Rome and Nettuno --  |t Letters of 1929 and 1930 from. Berlin, Rome, and Milan --  |t Letters of 1930 from Paris, Berlin, London, and Rome --  |t Letters of 1931 from Paris, Milan, and Portugal --  |t Letters of 1952 from Paris, Rome, and Castiglioncello --  |t Letters of 1933 from Rome, Paris, and Castiglioncello --  |t Letters of 1934 from Rome, Milan, London, and Paris --  |t Letters of 1935 from Paris, Rome, Milan, and New York --  |t Letters of 1936 from Rome --  |t Bibliography --  |t Subject Index --  |t Name Index 
520 |a In February 1925, the 58-year-old world-famous playwright Luigi Pirandello met Marta Abba, an unknown, beautiful actress less than half his age, and fell in love with her. She was to become, until his death in December 1936, not only his confidante but also his inspiring muse and artistic collaborator, helping him in his plans to reform Italian theater under the Fascist regime. Pirandello's love for the young actress was neither a literary infatuation nor a form of fatherly affection, but rather an unfulfilled, desperate passion that secretly consumed him during the last decade of his life. Bitterly disillusioned by the conditions of the theatrical world in Italy, Pirandello and Abba shared a dream of going abroad to earn their fortune and returning to Italy with the means to establish a national theater dedicated to high artistic standards. In March 1929, when Marta finally yielded to family pressure and left Pirandello alone in Berlin to revive her Italian stage career and to end rumors over their involvement, he endured a devastating heartbreak and fell into a life-threatening depression--more profound and long-lasting than any of his biographers have yet imagined. The hundreds of letters Pirandello wrote to Abba during these years are the only source that reveals the true story of his relentless torment. Selected, translated, and introduced here for the first time in any language, these powerful and moving documents reward the reader with the unique experience of living in intimacy with a profound poet of human pain. Here Pirandello encourages his beloved in her difficult career as actor/manager, rejoices in her triumphs, and desperately implores her to return to him. The letters are filled with glimpses of this major artistic personality at some of his most distinctive moments--such as the award of the Nobel Prize, his meetings with Mussolini, and Marta's long-dreamed-of success on Broadway--but they remain foremost an authentic confession of a Pirandello, without the mask of his art, telling the story of his real-life tragedy. In 1986, two years before she died, Marta Abba authorized the publication of the present correspondence so that the world might understand how deeply Pirandello had suffered. This English-language volume contains a selection of 164 letters from the complete edition of 552, which Princeton University Press will publish in cooperation with Mondadori, in the original Italian, in 1995. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. 
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