War (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Luigi Pirandello
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: About 1916
- Setting: Fabriano, Italy
- Principal Characters: A mother, A father
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: Values, Parents and children, World War II, Hallucinations or illusions, Italy or Italians
- Locales: Fabriano, Italy
The Story
Some travelers from Rome are obliged to spend most of the night aboard a second-class railway carriage, parked at the station in Fabriano, waiting for the departure of the local train that will take them the remainder of their trip to the small village of Sulmona. At dawn, they are joined by two additional passengers: a large woman, “almost like a shapeless bundle,” and her tiny, thin husband. The woman is in deep mourning and is so distressed and maladroit that she has to be helped into the carriage by the other passengers.
Her husband, following her,...
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