The Nation, June 24th, 1991
A few years before his death in 1936, Luigi Pirandello wrote in a private notebook, "There is somebody who's living my life. And I know nothing about him." He had already received enormous international acclaim as the author of the plays Henry IV, Right You Are (If You Think You Are) and Six Characters in Search of an Author, as well as for his short stories and novels; Greta Garbo had starred in the film version of his As You Desire Me; and in 1934 he had received the Nobel Prize. Yet he became steadily more isolated and his career more laced with contradictions. Although he had given his N...
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