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Luigi Pirandello

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

6,061 words, approx. 21 pages

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello Born in Sicily in 1867, Luigi Pirandello was the son of a prosperous sulfur merchant. The successful merchant initially sent his son to stu... Read more

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Luigi Pirandello

1,764 words, approx. 6 pages

The works of the Italian playwright, novelist, and critic Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) generally portray Italian middle-class society. Combining relativistic thinking with a specific Pirandellian bran... Read more

Luigi Pirandello

9,933 words, approx. 34 pages

Although his fame rests mainly on revolutionary plays such as Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (1921; translated as Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1922), Enrico IV (1922; translated as Henry ... Read more

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Pirandello Confesses … Why and How He Wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author (1925)

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The following is a translation of Pirandello's preface to Six Characters. I had to, to escape from … well, that is what I am going to explain. As I have written elsewhere, the lively lit... Read more

Critical Essay by Anna Balakian

3,832 words, approx. 13 pages

An affinity has often been seen between the theater of Pirandello and the surrealist mode because both adhere to such notions as the "absurd," the unconventional, the iconoclastic, and t... Read more

Olga Ragusa

10,339 words, approx. 35 pages