A narrativa resistente em Luigi Pirandello: uma questão de ética

Abstract

Since Greek antiquity to our days, the fictional characters have lost attributes such as identity, a detailed description of their garments, and even their names. But at the same time they have lost their totality, characters gained something important: the possibility of talking about themselves and their conflicts. When Luigi Pirandello expressed asynchronies between his creations and reality in his books, he used writing as a form of resistance. The pessimistic, powerless, and contradictory characters come to turn individual critiques into social criticism, by exposing the real situation of subjects being invariably hidden by social masks. Resistance in Pirandello can be understood as a movement of denial of life’s tragedy, in which man does not merely reproduce the social masks, but on the contrary, interrogates and fights them.