Novellas for a year
Bust of Luigi Pirandello
Novellas for one year (original title: Novelle per un anno) is the name of a collection of novels by the Italian writer and Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello .
The collection of novels, conceived for 365, comprises 246 stories that are self-contained. They mainly describe everyday situations in Sicily that people want to break out of.
Pirandello worked from 1922 until his death in 1936 on the work, which comprises fifteen volumes and also contains novellas - such as La mano del malato povero (1915) - written before 1922. Five of the novellas, including the best known with the title La Giara (The Jug), were filmed in 1984 by the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani under the title Kaos .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Quick: 'Le parole sono pietre'. Medical aspects of 20th century Italian literature. In: Würzburger medical history reports 7, 1989, pp. 5–34; here: p. 13 f.