Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore: this is the title Pirandello decided to give, after a careful (but not radical) revision, to his novel about cinema, published in 1916 with the title Si gira. It is the diary of a cinematographer who finds himself experiencing the “mechanical” art of working for a Roman production company, Kosmograph. Full of symbolic references and acute diagnoses of modernity, Si gira is one of Pirandello's most problematic and fascinating novels, the subject of debate in contemporary European culture. Suffice it to think of the reflections Benjamin dedicates to it in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
