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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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Luigi Pirandello’s books

Average rating: 3.93 · 126,280 ratings · 6,965 reviews · 1,500 distinct works • Similar authors

	Il fu Mattia Pascal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36,343 ratings — published 1904 — 47 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 4.03 avg rating — 30,703 ratings — published 1925 — 57 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 — 22,711 ratings — published 1921 — 75 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 and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello, Mark Musa (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 3,477 ratings — published 1921 — 10 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 — 2,361 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
	Uno, nessuno e centomila - L'esclusa 4.11 avg rating — 2,301 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
	L'esclusa 3.70 avg rating — 2,419 ratings — published 1901 — 131 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
	Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello, Tom Stoppard (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 1,888 ratings — published 1922 — 173 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
	Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore 3.78 avg rating — 1,740 ratings — published 1925 — 111 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 — 1,240 ratings — published 1917 — 139 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

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“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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