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In 'The Waves', a young man falls dangerously in love with his tenant downstairs who is about to get married; in 'The Signorina', a woman, disillusioned with her suitor's inability to declare his feelings, is prompted to make a rash decision that she will regret for ever; in 'A Friend of the Wives', a wedding organizer, the unattainably beautiful Pia, leaves a trail of destruction among her closest friends. In this collection of stories o Pirandello's first published work of fiction o the master of Italian modernism dissects the causes and the effects of passions that are either dimly felt or unrequited, ultimately raising doubts about the very nature and existence of love, while foreshadowing at the same time the themes and the psychologically nuanced characters that he will later develop in his more famous works.… (plus d'informations)
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Giulio Accurzi was what is known in society as a fine young man: thirty-three, well-to-do, smartly dressed, not unintelligent.
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He was delighted to feel himself loved by her, and happy in the knowledge that she was suffering because of him.
Already a strange obstinacy was starting to embitter her love. She was annoyed by her inability to conquer that man; she would have liked to compel him not to think so much, not to pay so much attention to the harsh necessities of his situation.
It came to him in a flash that the hateful thoughts which could be glimpsed behind her words had truly been his thoughts - thoughts, however, which he had never admitted to himself, and which he was aware of now for the first time, now that his conscience was troubled.
Signorina Pia Tolosani was somewhat affected by that vague melancholy which generally comes from too much reading, when someone has gotten into the habit of making the often blank pages of her own life conform to the model of those printed in some novels
She had put herself in the place of the distant bride, and had claimed for her all those comforts which a man, however much in love, would never have been able to think of.
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In 'The Waves', a young man falls dangerously in love with his tenant downstairs who is about to get married; in 'The Signorina', a woman, disillusioned with her suitor's inability to declare his feelings, is prompted to make a rash decision that she will regret for ever; in 'A Friend of the Wives', a wedding organizer, the unattainably beautiful Pia, leaves a trail of destruction among her closest friends. In this collection of stories o Pirandello's first published work of fiction o the master of Italian modernism dissects the causes and the effects of passions that are either dimly felt or unrequited, ultimately raising doubts about the very nature and existence of love, while foreshadowing at the same time the themes and the psychologically nuanced characters that he will later develop in his more famous works.
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