PSA XXXVI, 2024
Editors: Michael Subialka and Lisa Sarti
Managing Editor: Laura A. Lucci
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka
ESSAYS
THE STEPDAUGHTER AS RAISONNEUSE: TOWARDS A FEMININE READING OF THE PIRANDELLIAN CHARACTER
Annunziata Zevola
LIVING SPONTANEOUSLY BY BEING ONE WITH THE WORLD: ZEN IN UNA GIORNATA, THE LAST VOLUME OF PIRANDELLO’S NOVELLE PER UN ANNO
Enrico Vettore
THE HUMOR OF RETROSPECTIVITY: DISSOLUTION AND RESISTANCE IN THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL AND ONE, NO ONE, AND ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
Lorenzo Mecozzi
METAFICTION AS THE EXPRESSION OF CRISIS: THE CASE OF LUIGI PIRANDELLO AND MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO
Francesca Magario
THE “SIX CHARACTERS” OF GIUSEPPE FAVA’S DELIRIO (1980)
Pierlorenzo Randazzo
IN CONVERSATION
GIVING A VOICE TO THE VOICELESS: THE FICTIONAL TRUTH OF MARIA ANTONIETTA PORTULANO
Alessio Arena in conversation with Lisa Sarti
ADAPTING PIRANDELLO’S THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL FOR THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN STAGE
Will Eno in conversation with Michael Subialka
CREATIVE WORK
DEATH OF THE LATE MATTIE PASCAL, AN EXCERPT
Will Eno
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR, AN ADAPTATION
Nick Gabriel
THE TRAP, AN ADAPTATION
William Hugel
DRAMATURGIES
PIRANDELLIAN DRAMATURGIES, THIRD EDITION: COMIC AND GROTESQUE
Stefano Boselli
STEFANO IN LOVE
Hal Gelb
JOKE OF THE CENTURY
Miles Anthony
MEOLA
Robert Brophy
BOOK REVIEWS
ELENA TARDONATO FALIERE. LUIGI PIRANDELLO. ROSARIO: LABORDE EDITOR, 2023.
Jorge Jiménez Bellver
MAN, BEAST, AND VIRTUE BY LUIGI PIRANDELLO. TRANSLATED BY ALICE ROHE. EDITED BY GIUSEPPE BOLOGNESE. NEW YORK: BORDIGHERA PRESS, 2024.
Michael Subialka
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
UNA VERDE VENA DI FOLLIA [A GREEN VEIN OF MADNESS] BY ALESSIO ARENA. DIRECTED BY EMANUELA GIORDANO IN PALERMO.
Enrico Rosolino