Contesto generale La novella di Cisti il fornaio è la seconda della sesta giornata del Decameron di Boccaccio. In questa giornata, tutte le novelle hanno un tema comune: il modo elegante e intelligente (con arte e garbo) con cui i personaggi riescono a rispondere a situazioni difficili, spesso grazie all’arguzia, alla prontezza di spirito o all’uso sapiente delle parole (i cosiddetti “motti”). La narratrice è Pampinea, una delle sette giovani protagoniste del Decameron, che introduce la novella con una riflessione: a volte la natura e la fortuna premiano persone di umili origini, dotandole di un'anima nobile e virtuosa, proprio come accade a Cisti. Trama in breve Cisti è un fornaio fiorentino, quindi un uomo del popolo, ma di grande eleganza, educazione e intelligenza. Egli possiede un ottimo vino bianco, che desidera offrire a Geri Spina, un nobile fiorentino che ogni giorno passa davanti alla sua bottega insieme agli ambasciatori di papa Bonifacio VIII. Cisti però sa che, ...
After graduating from Trinity College, he was appointed English lecturer at the École Normal Supérieure in Paris and, consequently, moved to Paris.
There he came into contact with the French and foreign avant-garde intellectuals and artists of the 1930s such as James Joyce.
He joined the French Resistance during World War II and, in order to escape the Gestapo Police, he worked undercover as a farm labourer in the Avignon area.
He worked as translator and wrote some novels like the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.
These works were written in French and translated in English by Beckett due to achieve greater discipline and economy of expression, as dictated by his main goal: an attempt to explore and describe the human condition.
He became famous thanks to his major play Waiting for Godot and spent the rest of his life writing pays, some for the cinema, radio and television until his death in 1989.
In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Beckett is considered the father of theatre of the Absurd because his plays always deal with confinement, the inability to communicate and loneliss.
In Endgame (1957), for example, the protagonist Hamm and his parents are legless and their servant is only a man who can walk.
In Krapp’s last tape (1958) an old man listens to a tape recorded when he was younger, and maybe happier. The confessions of the voice on the tape seem to his those of a total stranger.
Finally, Happy days (1961), a play with only two characters, describes the human impotence and its negation: a woman is buried to the waist in Act I and, then, to the neck in Act II, and a man can only crawl on all fours.
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