ORCID

0000-0001-6589-0997

Document Type

Article

Date

2006

Keywords

Luigi Pirandello, The Mountain Giants, The New Colony, Unfinished Works, Filmic Adaptations, Film treatments

Language

English

Disciplines

Communication | East Asian Languages and Societies | English Language and Literature | European Languages and Societies | French and Francophone Language and Literature | German Language and Literature | Italian Language and Literature | Latin American Languages and Societies | Linguistics | Sign Languages | Slavic Languages and Societies | Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature

Description/Abstract

This article investigates the notion of the unfinished work. In Pirandello studies the word unfinished holds particular importance. Luigi Pirandello's last, and one of his major works, I giganti della montagna [The Mountain Giants] was not completed. The many years devoted to its making weaken the assumption that Pirandello was not capable of completing it in favor of his decision not to complete his work. I considered the overlapping of the writing of I giganti della montagna and of the attempts to produce the film La nuova colonia [The New Colony] an important, and insofar unnoticed, key element for understanding Pirandello’s modus operandi. Comparative examinations of both La Nuova Colonia and I Giganti della Montagna elucidate the comprehension of the other, adding another possible explanation for why the two chronologically overlapping projects - the play and the film - were not completed.

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