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War (Original title: Quando si comprende) is a short story by Italian playwright and dramatist Luigi Pirandello first published in the short story collection Un Cavallo nella Luna in 1918. [1] The story follows a discussion between parents of soldiers in the First World War about how they deal with grief.
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, prose writer and poet. Pirandello wrote more than 100 short stories, 40 plays and seven novels, including The Late Mattia Pascal (1904). Regarded as a major figure in 20th-century theatre, his plays explore psychology, the ego and identity issues and paved the way for absurd theatre in the 1950s.
Luigi Pirandello Baptismal Certificate. Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in Girgenti (now Agrigento), Sicily, near the poor suburb of Porto Empedocle. The area was called "Caos", from càusi, Sicilian for "trousers", after the shape of a nearby ravine. Luigi Pirandello claimed to have Greek origins in an interview to Kostas ...
Performance by the Pirandello Theatre of Art, Rome, given in London in 1925: the Manager/Director with the family. An acting company prepares to rehearse the play The Rules of the Game by Luigi Pirandello. As the rehearsal is about to begin, they are unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of six strange people.
Right You Are (if you think so) (Italian: Così è (se vi pare), also translated as So It Is (If You Think So), is an Italian drama by Luigi Pirandello.The play is based on Pirandello's short story La signora Frola e il signor Ponza, suo genero.
Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.
Each In His Own Way (Italian: Ciascuno a suo modo [tʃaˈskuːno a sˈsuːo ˈmɔːdo]) is a 1924 play by Luigi Pirandello.Along with Six Characters in Search of an Author, his most famous work, and Tonight We Improvise, it forms part of his "trilogy of the theatre in the theatre".
Twentieth century French literature did not undergo an isolated development and reveals the influence of writers and genres from around the world, including Walt Whitman, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Luigi Pirandello, the British and American detective novel, James Joyce, Jorge Luis ...