Il caso-Sicilia nel romanzo storico-sociale I vecchi e i giovani di Luigi Pirandello

Abstract

The author’s intention is to present the “Sicily case” in Luigi Pirandello’s socio-historical novel The Old and the Young (1913). The article explores the concept of the so-called “Sicily case” in Pirandello, which has not only its own environmental and literary specificity, but also social-political context. It is closely linked to the terrifying image of Sicilian nature that corresponds to the topical motif of the locus amoenus and its complete reversal, seen in the mirror distorted by the political and social climate of the country at the time. The “Sicily case” in Pirandello’s novel becomes a propeller of human consciousness, indeed the writer with several environmental references, the writer indeed highlights the affinities.