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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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Luigi Pirandello’s books

Average rating: 3.93 · 109,902 ratings · 5,727 reviews · 1,231 distinct works • Similar authors

	Il fu Mattia Pascal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31,386 ratings — published 1904 — 662 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 4.04 avg rating — 25,368 ratings — published 1925 — 421 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 3.83 avg rating — 20,793 ratings — published 1921 — 463 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 — 3,287 ratings — published 1921 — 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
	Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore; Enrico IV by Luigi Pirandello, Roberto Alonge (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 2,151 ratings — published 1948 — 32 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 4.11 avg rating — 1,962 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 3.70 avg rating — 2,062 ratings — published 1901 — 124 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 (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 1,695 ratings — published 1922 — 174 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
	Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore 3.77 avg rating — 1,405 ratings — published 1925 — 108 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 4.14 avg rating — 1,130 ratings — 14 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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June 2023 New School Classic Group Read

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, 1996, 203 pages

62 votes, 30.1%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages

39 votes, 18.9%

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, 1939, 208 pages

30 votes, 14.6%

The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna, 1975, 338 pages

20 votes, 9.7%

One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello, 1926, 268 pages

19 votes, 9.2%

The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy, 1972, 310 pages

18 votes, 8.7%

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, 1903, 336 pages

18 votes, 8.7%

206 total votes

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