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Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello. (1867–1936). Luigi Pirandello. born in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, Italy wealthy family Antonietta Portulano playwright, novelist and short story writer. studied philology at Rome and at Bonn

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Luigi Pirandello

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  1. LuigiPirandello (1867–1936)

  2. Luigi Pirandello • born in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, Italy • wealthy family • Antonietta Portulano • playwright, novelist and short story writer

  3. studied philology at Rome and at Bonn • 1897 to 1922 - professor of aesthetics and stylistics at the Real Istituto di MagistereFemminile at Rome. • great number of novellas = Novelleper un anno.

  4. Novels • Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904) [The Late Mattia Pascal] • I vecchi e i giovani (1913) [The Old and the Young]  • Si gira (1916) [Shoot!] • Uno, nessuno e centomila (1926) [One, None, and a Hundred thousand].

  5. Plays • 1918 and 1935- wrote a large number of dramas (50 plays) • Right You Are (If You Think You Are) • To Clothe the Naked • Henry IV

  6. Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1934 “theatre within the theatre” Six Characters in Search of an Author

  7. Six Characters in Search of an Author • Trilogy: • The theater in the theater • Each His Own Way (1924) • Tonight We Improvise (1930) •  illusion and reality • directors, actors, characters, spectators, and critics.

  8. Important innovator in drama • touring the world (1925–27) with his own company, the Teatrod’Arte in Rome.

  9. 1928, Pirandello spent his remaining years in frequent and extensive travel. • died Dec. 10, 1936, Rome

  10. Reference: • http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1934/pirandello-bio.html • http://www.britannica.com/biography

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