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Federico Fellini
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| << Well: a guy (he being
a writer, a practitioner or a theatre entrepreneur) is obliged
to stop the rhythm of his everyday life for a fortnight because
of an illness. Even if it is not serious, it's like an alarm-bell:
something has choked up in his organism. He has to have a rest
in Chianciano. The guy is involved in situations he feels very
heavy, being unable to dissolve them. He has got a wife, another
lover. >> |
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| Pirandello and
"the bitter water" |
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During his stay in the thermal baths, the
writer came to know the inhabitants' rough sincerity and was
fascinated by the variegated multitude of the other <<patients>>
and by the surrounding environment; all these impressions inspired
him two tales "Pallino e Mimì" ("Pallino
and Mimì") and "Acqua Amara" ("Bitter
Water"), where it is possible to find precise references
to Chianciano, with its surroundings and some town dwellers
who really existed. "Pallino e Mimmì" ("Pallino
and Mimì") contains clear hints to the Old Centre
of the town, to della Libertà Avenue and to the Acquasanta
(Holy Water) Park; curious and still real are the descriptive
pictures Pirandello traces in his "Acqua amara" ("Bitter
Water").
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