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  • Chapter 7 - Publishing

  • from Part II - Institutions
  • Edited by Patricia Gaborik, Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica ‘Silvio d'Amico’
  • Book:
    Pirandello in Context
    Published online:
    14 March 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2024, pp 53-59

  • Summary

    This chapter covers the publishing context of seven of Pirandello’s novels and argues for the importance of analyzing this landscape to delineate key turning points in the evolution of the Italian publishing world and in the canonization of a national author. This context reveals that if the playwright achieved international recognition while allowing himself and his theatre to become more and more experimental, the novelist instead followed a more conventional path. It shows how Pirandello’s choice of publishers and of their responses to his works reflects the development of the Italian publishing industry: His recognition as a national author proceeds alongside his narrative experimentations. The chapter also details the ascending trajectory of Pirandello’s publishing career and illustrates the strategies through which Pirandello was consecrated as a national author with the Mondadori Omnibus, including the blessing of Minister for Popular Culture Dino Alfieri in 1937.