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Anno XXIV , n° 2, Dicembre 2006 ( Contributi ) pag. 46-63

AMONG THE ASHES OF IRRELEVANCE:
THE GOD OF PIRANDELLO'S IL FU MATTIA PASCAL
JAMES T. CHIAMPI
The University of California at Irvine,
Irvine, California
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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