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...lean, soldierly man who rises promptly at 6 a.m. for a two-hour walk before breakfast and surprises the Riviera crowd by never setting foot in the local bistros. For the past three years, Kazantzakis has been a front-running candidate for the Nobel Prize. Like Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello, a past Nobel winner, and Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset, he is far from the operatic Mediterranean type; with them, he shares a dry, winy brilliance of mind. Under the harsh sun of Crete, neither brooding Teutonic mysticisms nor romantic self-deceptions can survive. The pages of a Kazantzakis novel...
...reading on such subjects as the folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare Pavese's The Leather Jacket), and the metaphysical pingpong of illusion v. reality (Luigi Pirandello...
What is reality? The question has furrowed the higher brows from Sophocles and Heraclitus to Pirandello and John Dewey. To Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, who produced the best in 19th century Brazilian literature, the "problem of reality" was not just a metaphysical "What is it?" The problem was a practical "Can you take it?" In Philosopher or Dog?, the third of his novels to be published in English, Author Machado tells what happens to a man who can't take...
Thomas V. Gaydos will play the lead role of Archbishop Thomas Becket. Gaydoes also played the lead in the last H.D.C. production, Pirandello's "Henry IV", last November. Supporting him will be Robert S. Schwartz, Louis Begley, John N. Docker, and Andre W. Gregory...
Henry IV is a difficult play. Difficult to understand and to act, to direct and produce, this play is a fit challenge for a competent group of amateurs. Pirandello explores a madman's world, with quick thrusts of dialogue, first expository, then dramatic. The madman jumps between the world of modern reality--called sanity--and his other real world of the 11th century, in which he is Henry...