RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
Anno XXIV , n° 2, Dicembre 2006 ( Contributi ) | pag. 46-63 |
AMONG THE ASHES OF IRRELEVANCE: THE GOD OF PIRANDELLO'S IL FU MATTIA PASCAL |
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JAMES T. CHIAMPI | |
The University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California |
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La nature est telle qu'elle marque partout un Dieu perdu. Blaise Pascal Can it be that the whole is composed of nothing but discontented parts that have only desirabilities in mind? Is the whole course of things perhaps simply the Away from here! Away from actuality! eternal dissatisfaction itself? Is desirability perhaps the moving force itself deus? Friedrich Nietzsche Pirandello's novel Il fu Mattia Pascal is, together with Ariosto's Orlando furioso, among Italian literature's greatest contributions to the comic literature of the death of God. In Il fu Mattia Pascal, Pirandello uses irrelevance both thematically and structurally to bear witness to the power that the ashes of Nietzsche's dead God possess. In doing so, Pirandello releases a deconstructive irony on the world or perhaps better, world/nonworld of his narrative because the ashes of God are an apocalyptic undecidable, expressing the paradoxical relation between chance and providence in the narrative. [...] |
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