Ecos pirandellianos en el pensamiento de Unamuno

Abstract

In this paper I focus on the influence of Luigi Pirandello on Miguel de Unamuno. The first similarities between these two writers appear on a Pirandellian short story titled A character’s tragedy and Unamuno's novel, Niebla. Furthermore, I analyze two dramas of the Spanish author, El hermano Juan and El otro and I remark on its commonalities with the philosophy of Luigi Pirandello. Finally, I realize that the Pirandello’s topics such as madness versus sanity, to be versus to seem, the coexistence of reality and fiction and the art of play within a play appear in both texts of the Spanish author unanimously and consistently.