Living Masks: The Achievement of Pirandello (Toronto Italian Studies) by Umberto Mariani

Author:Umberto Mariani [Mariani, Umberto]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: LIT004200
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

Cotrone understands Ilse’s passion, which he once shared:

So this work – played before ordinary people – because it’s the work of a poet – has been your ruin?! Oh, how well I understand! … When I say ‘the work of a poet’ it’s not to disparage it – quite the contrary! – It’s to disparage the people who turned their back on it! … I hate such people! That’s why I live here. (II 1328–9)

He has renounced it in favour of a life of self-sufficient creativity, a life devoted to the creation of visions that are addressed to no one and seek no dialogue with anyone:

You actors give flesh to visions so they may live – and they do live! We do the opposite: we make visions out of our flesh, and we too make them live as well. We don’t have to seek them far away – we need only make them emerge from ourselves. You called yourself only a shadow of what you once were? … Well, whatever you once were, you’ve only to let her out. Don’t you think she’s still alive inside you? Isn’t the spirit of the young man who killed himself for you alive still? You have him inside you. (II 1341–2)

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