Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore: o mundo mecanizado e o cinema em Pirandello

Abstract

Luigi Pirandello is a remarkable and definite presence in the literature of the twenty century, as one of the mainly representative authors of the italian Decadentismo, not only as a dramaturge – field in which he is wordly famous – but also with his innovative and significant opus. The present work proposes to analyze the author’s poetic, that destroy the 19 century prevalent way of work, and it has as theme the fragmentation of the subject, the alienation and the relativity of the modern world, a crisis of everything that is absolute. To prove this point we have analyzed one of the mainly pirandellianos romances, Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore, opus that brings his serious and careful thoughts about crisis in the modern world generated by technological progress – brought by industrial civilization – that has had as consequence the mechanization and acceleration of the life rhythm in big metropolis. The work contains within something which we understand to be the fundamental themes of his opus: value crisis in the mechanized and modern world and the invasion of technology in the field of arts, represented by the cinema. Taking as basis the texts of Pirandello’s mainly critics and the texts of those who treated the changes that had been occurred in the work of arts inside the industrial society, we present considerations that can demonstrate pirandelliana’s preoccupation, not only with the human being, but also with the future of art and theatre in a society that had been alienated by machines – what transforms the author in one of the greatest philosopher of the twenty century. Key words: Luigi Pirandello; humour; work art; cinema; cultural industry.