Pirandello

American  

[pir-uhn-del-oh, pee-rahn-del-law] / ˌpɪr ənˈdɛl oʊ, ˌpi rɑnˈdɛl lɔ /

noun

1. Luigi 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1934.

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Pirandello British  

/ piranˈdɛllo /

noun

1. Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1867–1936, Italian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist. His plays include Right you are ( If you think so ) (1917), Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), and Henry IV (1922): Nobel prize for literature 1934

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Example Sentences

It is so if you think so, to borrow a phrase from Luigi Pirandello: the notion that narrative, or identity, must be conditional, a reflection of the observer more than the observed.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2022

And as a man of the theater who directed plays by the likes of Pirandello and Beckett, Camilleri was no stranger to unorthodoxy.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021

The book’s intellectual range of reference – from phenomenology to Jungian psychology to quantum physics to Beckett and Pirandello – is dizzying.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2020

Half of the students used Twitter to analyze “The Late Mattia Pascal,” the 1904 novel by Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, which satirizes issues of self-knowledge and self-destruction.

From The Verge • May 31, 2019

Each in his own way, and two other plays, by Luigi Pirandello; from the Italian by Arthur Livingston. © 11Dec23, A765393.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1951 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office