Italienische Literatur

Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is a metatheatrical drama by Luigi Pirandello. Viewed as an important work of absurdist literature, the play was a critical failure when it was first staged in Rome. Revised by its author and bolstered by successful performances in New York City, Six Characters in Search of an Author has been recognized as a pioneering examination of the nature of creativity, the relationship of the director and actors to the work of art, and the psychological stress associated with staging a theatrical production. While preparing to rehearse a new play by director Luigi Pirandello, a theatre company is interrupted with the arrival of six strangers on set. After a moment of frustration and confusion, the director is told that they are six unfinished characters whose story cannot be told without his intervention. The Father, Mother, Son, Stepdaughter, Boy, and Child refuse to leave, forcing the director to convince his actors to help them fulfill their wish. As the story begins to take shape, the characters exert more and more control over the set and the participation of the other actors, soon overtaking the director entirely. Strange and compelling, Six Characters in Search of an Author is a unique play which saw resistance from critics and theatergoers for one reason only: its methods forced them to question the nature of reality itself. This edition of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author is a classic work of Italian literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Positive psychology, what is it?It is exactly the right lever to release blockages that restrict you in your development. It is just as effective in overcoming fears and finally breaking new ground. With this positive psychology you will learn to understand yourself much more and gain an understanding of the way other people think and behave.Manipulation, fear and blockagesIt creates a very good basis for you to recognize manipulation by other people. Manipulation, fear and blockages are major obstacles that slow you down in your personality development and prevent you from gaining self-confidence, self-esteem, self-esteem and acceptance. With positive psychology, you get the best tools to finally break new ground and enjoy life. You free yourself from old burdens and look positively into the future. You look forward to the challenges that life offers you and gain a great deal of self-knowledge. You learn to appreciate yourself with all your mistakes and weaknesses.

Italian actor Luigi Lo Cascio is best known for his remarkable career in film, which began in 2000 with Marco Tullio Giordana’s biopic of Peppino Impastato, a lone mafia fighter in the small town of Cinisi, in The Hundred Steps. However, Lo Cascio’s passion for acting began in the theatre, a medium that pushes actors to find their own physical and verbal language. In several interviews, he has commented on how, per force, film flattens expression and uses a more quotidian language that takes poetry away from actors in order to leave it to directors and cinematographers. After having played several Shakespearean characters on stage, in 2014 he decided to adapt Shakespeare’s Othello in Sicilian dialect, writing an original play, which he also directed and acted in as Iago. The adaptation is motivated by an understandable desire to make the classic text speak to a twenty-first-century audience, while the choice of a language that few understand is determined by its rawness and implicit poetry. Sicilian is immediate, expressive, and apt to convey emotions that standard Italian turns into literary language. Lo Cascio’s Othello creates an original mixture of contemporary and timeless concerns in an original play about the impossibility of men and women to understand each other.—from "Crimes of Passion: Lo Cascio’s Otello, a Sicilian Shakespearean Moor," by Gloria Pastorino

A first-century biblical document could shatter 2,000 years of faith, and the Church will kill to keep it secret.A Vatican Secret Archives researcher discovers a devastating ancient papyrus that claims Jesus was a disciple of John the Baptist and the second Messiah. To authenticate the document, Garbaldi travels to Boston, but the revelation has already mobilized a powerful enemy: The Entity, the Vatican's ruthless secret service.Fearful of the tractate's devastating impact on Christianity, the Entity dispatches an elite assassin to recover the document and silence Garbaldi forever.When Garbaldi's friend is killed, he seeks help from FBI agent, Tom Meecham, who must now play a dangerous game of deception by creating a fake biblical artifact as bait for the assassin, which he hopes will expose the Vatican's conspiracy.Will Meecham survive his confrontation with the Church and unveil the most guarded secret in Christian history?All the Evils is a shocking thriller about the Vatican's secret service that will make you question your beliefs.

23:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam

23:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam

Carlo Goldoni: Der Diener zweier Herren. (Il servitore di due padroni) Die Prosakomödie um das Doppelspiel des Dieners Truffaldino, der »dumm und schlau zugleich« ist, ist Goldonis erfolgreichstes Bühnenwerk und darf als Höhepunkt der Commedia dell¿arte gelten. Entstanden 1745, Uraufführung wahrscheinlich 1746 in Mailand, Erstdruck: Florenz 1753. Hier in der Übers. v. Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Halle a.d.S.: Verlag von Otto Hendel [o.J.]. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Goldoni, Carlo: Der Diener zweier Herren. Übers. v. Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Halle a. d. S.: Verlag von Otto Hendel [o. J.]. Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgeführt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Carlo Goldoni. Gemälde von Alessandro Longhi. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Das Schauspiel Leben des Galilei wurde 1938/39 im Exil in Dänemark geschrieben. Die Zeitungen hatten die Nachricht von der Spaltung des Uran-Atoms durch den Physiker Otto Hahn und seine Mitarbeiter gebracht.Die Uraufführung der ersten Fassung des Stückes erfolgte 1943 am Schauspielhaus Zürich, die der zweiten Fassung 1947 in Beverly Hills (Coronet Theatre).'Das Leben des Galilei wird vermutlich neben der Heiligen Johanna der Schlachthöfe und dem Kaukasischen Kreidekreis und einigen Stücken Lyrik Brechts größten Anspruch auf Unsterblichkeit begründen.' W. E. Süskind

Beatrice und Florindo sind einander versprochen. Als Florindo verdächtigt wird, den Bruder seiner Geliebten getötet zu haben, flieht er unter falschem Namen nach Venedig. Beatrice reist ihm als Mann verkleidet nach. Beide mieten sich unerkannt in einer Pension ein. Beatrices chronisch hungriger Diener Truffaldino wittert die Chance, sein mageres Salär aufzubessern, indem er ohne das Wissen seiner Herrin auch in den Dienst Florindos tritt. Truffaldino verstrickt sich in seiner Doppelrolle in immer neue Lügen, bis das heiter-komische Verwirrspiel ein für alle glückliches Ende findet. Goldonis erfolgreiche 1746 in Mailand uraufgeführte Komödie markiert den Höhepunkt der italienischen Commedia dell¿Arte und überwindet diese zugleich.

Ein weltliches Mysterienspiel: "Fo's herausragender Geniestreich." (Peter O. Chotjewitz) INHALT: Der Aufstand von Bologna. Das Flattermäuschen. Lucius und der Esel. Rose, frisch und duftend. Gesang der Flagellanten. Der Kindermord von Bethlehem. Moritat vom Blinden und vom Lahmen. Die Hochzeit von Kanaa. Die Geburt des Spielmanns. Die Geburt des Leibeigenen. Die Auferstehung des Lazarus. Bonifazius VIII.