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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Pirandello

In elucidating the way Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov established the foundation of modern drama, he opened minds to the revolutionary accomplishments of Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

Several of these characters fret about who really made them, which makes the book feel like a three-week road trip with Pirandello nattering on in the back seat with a bag of Cheetos.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2019

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

Unperturbed by the mixup, Majoli recited the title of a play by Pirandello: “It is so if you think so.”

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017

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