His last novel, Uno, nessuno e centomila (1925-1926 Fiera Letteraria 1926), can conventionally be understood as metaphor-based, but perhaps more interestingly can be read as presenting a theatrical confrontation of Doppelgangers, who as an ensemble fail to add up to a portrait of the protagonist. (Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio Operatore) ( 1916 trans C K Scott Moncrieff as Shoot!: The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio Cinematograph Operator 1926), an extremely early metaphysical exploration of the nature of the film experience (see Cinema Perception). Some of the tales assembled in Tales of Madness: A Selection from Luigi Pirandello's Short Stories for a Year (coll trans Giovanni R Bussino 1984) have fantastic content but most of his fiction is set desolately in this world, as are all his novels, even Si gira. Many of his circa 400 stories and sketches, many of them Contes-Cruels, are set in Sicily, and render starkly a vision of Sex and marriage in terms of psychic and physical Tortures. (1867-1936) Italian playwright and author whose prolific career began with poetry – Mal Giocondo (coll 1889) – and continued with a large amount of short fiction, beginning with Amori senza Amore (coll 1894).
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