says that Pirandello's ashes, after the first of three funerals and a half celebrated in honor of Nobel Prize literature were collected in a Greek funerary urn of the 5th century. He says that after the ceremony, solemn, the urn should have been brought to Sicily, the first flight aboard an Air Force, then by train, but both trips were discontinued in mysterious circumstances, surreal and, therefore, Pirandello.
says that at some point, and an interest the then head of government Alcide de Gasperi, the ashes arrived in Agrigento, and Professor John Zirretta, director of the Museo Civico, the transfer was due to a modern Greek urn, smaller nell'incresciosa fact finding to see "advance" one pound, a pound and a half of Luigi Pirandello. What to do? He says the professor, according to the will of the dead, so far unfulfilled, he decided to "throw" those hundred grams of the Nobel Prize in the soil of Kaos, the garden where there is the house of the great writer.
says that this is the story, absurd but true, as told by writer Roberto Palermo Alajmo in "Ashes of Pirandello" (Dragon Publisher), a beautiful small book illustrated by the great artist Mimmo Paladino.
Alajmo He says, always been interested in death, and especially the after-death ("... as for me, the soul does not interest me so much, is free to do what he wants. It is the body that bothers me ... "), has collected many stories on the theme of death of famous men, from Dante to Moliere, from Goya to Evita Peron, but for obvious reasons" jinx "unfortunately not yet been published. He says that a
bell'assaggio of the story is told in the format "Words in the South" by Bookweb.tv curated by Daniela Gambino and Paul Maselli on:
http://www.booksweb.tv/content/show/ContentId/ 1604
He says Roberto Alajmo, my dear friend, is very nice person and a writer and supremely, above all, envied by myself.
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