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Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba (Princeton Legacy Library)
Luigi Pirandello
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Description for Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba (Princeton Legacy Library)
Hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 434 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
434
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691654584
SKU
V9780691654584
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Reviews for Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba (Princeton Legacy Library)
What these letters show is and older man racked, humiliated, crawling with hopeless passion for a much younger woman.
The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books