Abstract EN:

Rich in significance as far as the story of the subject of writing is concerned and replete with the ideological effects entailed by the emergence of each text within the general text, the prose work of luigi pirandello is characterized by a combinatory system which places the process of signification beyond the configurations of the utterances and within enunciation itself. Novel after novel, the phatic tension becomes more strongly marked : the writing unveils its main function which is that of staging the identity problem, while the reader, prisoner of the text, becomes the indispensable and submissive partner of the writer who tries to reach an unlimited semiosis through a dialogue with himself. The writing, though, comes up against the various forms of spectacle (theatre and cinema) which, at the turn of the century, make of the work of art a marketable product and reveal the inadequacies of the written work in those modified conditions of emission and especially reception. Literature can only recover its power through making of the word a tool of revenge and of the theatre an opportunity for the imaginary to stage itself. Lastly, pirandello's writing, actuated by the urges of compensation and release, also reflects the wrenching conflicts of experience. Procedures of indirection reveal more than they hide the impossible harmony between the erotic tension which drives towards the other and the fervour of writing which makes of the ego its own object of desire : the actress alone, in so far as she becomes the "body" of the writing, remedies this splitting of the ego and founds the power of the poet. Refusing both the trauma of birth and the pain of being a man, pirandello thus comes into being as a writer.