Luigi Pirandello – “Exclusa” (The Outcast)
In the traditional Sicily of a century ago, a married woman carries on an innocent correspondence with the town's most popular intellectual and politician. Her husband catches her and, accusing her of adultery, throws her out of the house; her own father disowns her and, fearing public disgrace, locks himself in a room he refuses to leave other than feet first.
She devotes her new life to easing the suffering of her mother and sister, but the two men who caused all this pain do not leave her a moment's peace. Between the sense of duty and social laws, between reason and passion, a woman struggles to survive.
“In the novel Exclusa, the geometric demonstration of a paradox does not exhaust the fascination of this Pirandellian novel, full of tension, peopled with characters built with precision and cruelty in an already theatrical dimension and yet able to linger on luminous, serene descriptions of nature, or on landscapes of the heart in which the individual discovers his own solitude.”
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