Luigi Pirandello, Si gira [Shoot! The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator ]

Lisa Sarti (Borough of Manhattan CC (CUNY))

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Domains

Cinema/ Film/ TV

Dates

First circulation or publication 1925

Places

Italy (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

The sixth of Luigi Pirandello’s seven novels, Shoot! The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator (I quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore), was published in 1925, after it originally appeared as Shoot! (Si gira…) in 1915 in the literary journal Nuova Antologia. The two versions present slight differences in style more than in content, with minor cuts and additions that do not alter the plot. The changes Pirandello made in the two editions are detailed in the footnotes to the Meridiani edition of his novels edited by Giovanni Macchia in collaboration with Mario Costanzo, which are now collected in the second volume of Tutti i romanzi (see bibliography). …

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Citation: Sarti, Lisa. "Si gira". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 April 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35823, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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