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EACH IN HIS OWN WAY: “AND TWO OTHER PLAYS EACH IN HIS OWN WAY AND TWO OTHER PLAYS BY LUIGI PIRANDELLO FROM THE ITALIAN BY ARTHUR LIVINGSTON LONDON J. M. DENT & SONS LTD, Printed in U.S. A, TRANSLATOR’S NOTE Inv the originality of its form, “Each in His Own Way” ‘suggests the manner of “Six Characters In Search of An Author." We may say, indeed, that if the Jatter was the drama of the writing of a play, “Each in His Own Way” is the drama of the presentation of @ play. Taking a character from contemporary life, and mindful of a recent experience in his own career as an author (where x woman in “real life” recognized herself in one of his plays), Pirandello has tried to dramatize an Ttalian—a Latin—“firse night,” with ita Claques, its ctitics, its partisanchips, all that strange com- motion which features new artistic events in nations that have a long tradition of art, and no tradition of parliamen- tary decoru . But thig is only the external element ia “Each in His Own Way” (let not one confuse it, as the "Six Characters" was confused, with a skit on dramatic criticism). Deeper down, this play presents a general picture of life as Pirandello sees it--as though, after viewing the human soul in special aspects in the many plays be,has written since 1919, the author felt the need of summing’ up, reconstructing the whole canvas in its totality, in a play that would show the wider relationships wef the many themes which he has elsewhere treated, Here we see the Stream of Lifcy-which Bergson would call the “vital urge” (and Freud, maybe, the Unconscious), flow= ing along with its silent, mighty, irresistible tide. ‘Two in- dividuals, Delia Morello and Michele Rocca, would stem its flow: they aro overwhelmed in the tumultuous torrent that the Stream becoraes as the feeble dikes, which they have can= v
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