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Luigi Pirandello (Italian: [luˈiːdʒi piranˈdɛllo]; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.
Jun 24, 2024 · Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. With his invention of the “theatre within the theatre” in the play Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore (1921; Six Characters in Search of an Author), he became an important.
Biographical. Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was born in Girgenti, Sicily. He studied philology at Rome and at Bonn and wrote a dissertation on the dialect of his native town (1891). From 1897 to 1922 he was professor of aesthetics and stylistics at the Real Istituto di Magistere Femminile at Rome. Pirandello’s work is impressive by its sheer volume.
Pirandello’s life was a tumultuous journey from a traditional young man in feudal Italy to one of the leading modern dramatists of his time. He is known for his exploration of early psychology and metatheatricality as well as adapting his short stories into plays.
Jun 28, 2012 · Luigi Pirandello wrote over 100 short stories, about 40 plays and seven novels. His plays, which often contain both farce and tragedy, paved the way for the theater of the absurd in the 1950s. Pirandello’s plays explore psychology, the ego and identity issues.
Luigi Pirandello is one of the most famous Italian writers of the twentieth century, both in Italy and across the world.
Luigi Pirandello has 1196 books on Goodreads with 254441 ratings. Luigi Pirandello’s most popular book is Il fu Mattia Pascal.
