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Luigi Pirandello

Born

in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

June 28, 1867

Died

December 10, 1936

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Theatre

Influences

Giosuè Carducci, Jean Paul, Tieck, Chamisso, Heinrich Heine, Goe ...more

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Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.

He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"

Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 134,395 ratings · 7,776 reviews · 1,652 distinct works • Similar authors

	Il fu Mattia Pascal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,775 ratings — published 1904 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (Eridanos Library #18) 4.03 avg rating — 33,610 ratings — published 1926 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Characters in Search of an Author 3.83 avg rating — 23,506 ratings — published 1921	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello, Mark Musa (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 3,557 ratings — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uno, nessuno e centomila - L'esclusa 4.11 avg rating — 2,462 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore; Enrico IV by Luigi Pirandello, Roberto Alonge (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 2,444 ratings — published 1948 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'esclusa 3.70 avg rating — 2,555 ratings — published 1901	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello, Tom Stoppard (Adaptation) 3.79 avg rating — 1,964 ratings — published 1922	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore 3.77 avg rating — 1,877 ratings — published 1925 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right You Are! 4.02 avg rating — 1,293 ratings — published 1917	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Luigi Pirandello (?)

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

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“THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

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“Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.”
― Luigi Pirandello

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June 2023 New School Classic Group Read

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, 1996, 203 pages

60 votes, 29.7%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages

39 votes, 19.3%

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, 1939, 208 pages

30 votes, 14.9%

One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello, 1926, 268 pages

19 votes, 9.4%

The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna, 1975, 338 pages

19 votes, 9.4%

The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy, 1972, 310 pages

18 votes, 8.9%

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, 1903, 336 pages

17 votes, 8.4%

202 total votes

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