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Her Husband by Pirandello, Luigi ;King, Martha ;Witt, Mary Ann Frese is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Her Husband about?

One of the twentieth century’s greatest literary artists and winner of the Nobel prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello wrote the novel Her Husband in 1911, before he produced any of the well-known plays with which his name is most often associated today. Her Husband —translated here for the first time into English—is a profoundly entertaining work, by turns funny, bitingly satirical, and tinged with anguish. As important as any of the other works in Pirandello’s oeuvre, it portrays the complexities of male/female relations in the context of a newly emerging, small but vocal Italian feminist movement. Evoking in vivid detail the literary world in Rome at the turn of the century, Her Husband tells the story of Silvia Roncella, a talented young female writer, and her husband Giustino Boggiolo. The novel opens with their arrival in Rome after having left their provincial southern Italian hometown following the success of Silvia’s first novel, the rather humorously titled House of Dwarves . As his wife’s self-appointed (and self-important) promoter, protector, counselor, and manager, Giustino becomes the primary target of Pirandello’s satire. But the couple’s relationship

Who reads Her Husband?

Author

Pirandello, Luigi ;King, Martha ;Witt, Mary Ann Frese

Publisher

Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822326007

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance