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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 ...
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (Italian: Uno, nessuno e centomila [ˈuːno nesˈsuːno e tˌtʃɛntoˈmiːla]) is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello.It is Pirandello's last novel; his son later said that it took "more than 15 years" to write. [1]
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.
Henry IV (Italian: Enrico IV [enˈriːko ˈkwarto]) is an Italian play (Enrico IV) by Luigi Pirandello written in 1921 and premiered to general acclaim at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan on 24 February 1922. [1] A study on madness with comic and tragic elements, it is about a man who believes himself to be Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
Born in Rome, the son of the Nobel Prize winner Luigi, Pirandello enrolled in the Faculty of Letters at the Sapienza University, but left his studies in 1915 to enlist as a volunteer in the World War I. [1] Almost immediately captured from the Austrian army, he remained imprisoned between Mauthausen and Planá until the end of the war. [1]
The Late Mattia Pascal (Italian: Il fu Mattia Pascal [il ˈfu mmatˈtiːa paˈskal]) is a 1904 novel by Luigi Pirandello. It is one of his best-known works and was his first major treatment of the theme of the mask.