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

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

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

Not every situation comedy would work equally well reimagined this way — “Gilligan’s Island,” you could refit as a Pirandello play, maybe, but it’s hard to imagine milking an ongoing drama out of that unlikely crew.

From Los Angeles Times

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

It was spun off, so Davidson thinks, from the title of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 play, “Six Characters in Search of an Author.”

From Los Angeles Times