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

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

The show generates a good deal of screwball energy with these constant scrambles to its own verbal surface, which variously evokes “Airplane!” and Pirandello.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2020

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

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