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 almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre.
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: 3.96 · 64,615 ratings · 2,939 reviews · 713 distinct works • Similar authors

	Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, Edward Storer (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 14,505 ratings — published 1921 — 276 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
	The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello, William Weaver (Translator), Charles Simic (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 17,713 ratings — published 1904 — 324 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 by Luigi Pirandello, William Weaver (Translator), Samuel Putnam (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 12,431 ratings — published 1924 — 286 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 — 3,003 ratings — published 1921 — 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
	Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore; Enrico IV by Luigi Pirandello, Roberto Alonge (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 1,426 ratings — published 1948 — 16 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 4.12 avg rating — 919 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 3.75 avg rating — 1,059 ratings — published 1901 — 62 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 - Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore by Luigi Pirandello, Sergio Campailla (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 806 ratings — published 1925 — 9 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 3.89 avg rating — 1,115 ratings — published 1922 — 94 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
	Novelle per un anno by Luigi Pirandello, C.A. McCormick (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 1937 — 42 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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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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Polls

July 2014 Contemporary Classic -

Which book would you like to read for our July 2014 Contemporary Classic Group Read?

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

48 votes, 20.5%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

28 votes, 12.0%

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

26 votes, 11.1%

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

19 votes, 8.1%

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

15 votes, 6.4%

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

13 votes, 5.6%

The Stranger by Albert Camus

13 votes, 5.6%

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

12 votes, 5.1%

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

8 votes, 3.4%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8 votes, 3.4%

Hiroshima by John Hersey

7 votes, 3.0%

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

6 votes, 2.6%

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

6 votes, 2.6%

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

5 votes, 2.1%

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

5 votes, 2.1%

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

4 votes, 1.7%

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

4 votes, 1.7%

Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

3 votes, 1.3%

Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Döblin

3 votes, 1.3%

Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen

1 vote, 0.4%

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

0 votes, 0.0%

234 total votes

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