MATHEMATICS AND NARRATOLOGY: EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE OF PIRANDELLO’S NOVELS ACCORDING TO THE MÖBIUS RING
MATHEMATICS AND NARRATOLOGY: EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE OF PIRANDELLO’S NOVELS ACCORDING TO THE MÖBIUS RING

Author(s): Dimitra Giannara
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Studies of Literature, History of ideas
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: Pirandello; Möbius ring; Incompleteness theory; Recursive definitions; Bilateral trip;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper firstly I give a descriptive overview of the structure of Luigi Pirandello’s (1867–1936) novels in a ringkomposition. I subsequently replace the common knowledge of the ring with the one proposed by August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868). Finally and, as a result, we arrive to some seditious conclusions concerning what we thought to know about Pirandello’s heroes. Particularly I will show that they were directing away from self–reference or formal rules by rambling inside and outside the ordinary social topology. The interactions studied by physics are in the present paper fabricated in the five–dimensional space of literature which revaluates the modern conceptions of time, space and causality.

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