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Chapter 12 - Massimo Bontempelli

from Part III - Interlocutors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2024

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Patricia Gaborik
Edited by
Patricia Gaborik
Patricia Gaborik
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Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica ‘Silvio d'Amico’
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Summary

This chapter treats Pirandello’s relationship with his good friend, fellow writer, and collaborator on the Teatro d’Arte, Massimo Bontempelli. It addresses the aesthetic and political views and life experiences that united them and reframes the dominant notion of early twentieth-century Italian playwrights as lesser pirandellisti. Describing their influence as mutual, the chapter explores both authors’ treatment of myth and the modern masses in works including The Festival of Our Lord of the Ship, The Mountain Giants, Nostra Dea, and Valòria. Finally, it covers Bontempelli’s magisterial analysis of his friend’s writing in the eulogy Pirandello, o del candore.

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Pirandellopirandellismogrottesco (theatre of the grotesque)Massimo BontempelliPaola MasinoRoyal Italian Academymyth in Pirandello and BontempelliLa sagra del signore della NaveValòriaPirandelloo del candore
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Pirandello in Context , pp. 95 - 102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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