Tales of Madness by Luigi Pirandello

Author:Luigi Pirandello [Pirandello, Luigi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dante University Press
Published: 2015-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

"What an animal!" Feroni exclaimed the first time he saw it happen.

But then, thinking it over more carefully, he realized that he had called an animal an animal, like one might call a man an animal.

In fact, he had called it an animal, certainly not because after so many years of trying, it still had not been clever enough to realize that the face of the step was too high, and that in attempting to adhere vertically to it, it would naturally lose its balance at a certain point and fall backwards. No, it was because, though he had tried to help it, it had refused his help.

What followed from this observation? That in calling man an animal, you do animals a very great injustice, because you take for stupidity what instead is their integrity or instinctual prudence. You call a man who doesn't accept help, an animal, because it doesn't seem right to praise a man for what is appropriate in animals.

This, in brief, is how he reasoned.

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