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A collection of essays which aim to broaden the reader's knowledge of Luigi Pirandello and his influence on 20th century drama. The essays cover issues of theory, genre, gender, and language and theatre. ... Read more

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An extensive collection of much previously unpublished archival material including documents from Luigi Pirandello's theoretical essays and reviews. Emphasising Pirandello as a multi-faceted man of the theatre, this book follows the rise and fall of his own theatre company and his attempts to reform deeply entrenched practices in Italian theatre during the years of Fascism.
Susan Bassnett and Jennifer Lorch are lecturers of Italian at the University of Warwick, UK. ... Read more

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This work examines the manifestations of the maternal figure in a significant corpus of narrative and theatrical works, namely those of Lorca and Pirandello. The interdisciplinary study utilizes research in psychoanalysis, sociology and the history of the religion in its analysis. In Part I, the author points out the numinous elements of the maternal figure represented by selected artists - motifs of the good mother, of the terrible mother, of the water, fire and earth's maternity, of the absent mother and of the double mother. Part II focuses upon Federico Garcia Lorca's 'dramas rurales', Bodas de sangre, Yerma and La casa de Bernarda Alba, underlining the various aspects of the female representation. The most important elements of the female images in Luigi Pirandello's theatre constitute Part III. The author examines archetypical works such as, La nuova colonia, Lazzaro, I giganti della montagna. ... Read more

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Luigi Pirandello is best known for his experimental plays, but his narrative production has not enjoyed the same degree of critical attention. O'Rawe's study represents the first major reassessment of this output, including the 'realist' novels, the historical novel I vecchi e i giovani (1909) and the autobiographical Suo marito (1911). The book identifies in Pirandello a practice of 'self-plagiarism' - constant rewriting and revision and obsessive re-use of material - and explores the relation of these overlooked modes of composition to the author's own theories of authorship and textuality. Drawing on a wide range of critical theory, O'Rawe repositions Pirandello as a major figure in the development of European narrative modernism. ... Read more

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This reference companion, by some of the best-known Pirandello experts and scholars of modern drama, analyzes significant aspects of the life and work of Luigi Pirandello. The 27 contributions are grouped into six categories: Pirandello's world, background information, Pirandello's plays, Pirandello's influence, Pirandello's work in production, and Pirandello's non-theatrical works. In addition to the original essays, a complete bibliography of works by Pirandello and books and articles about him is included, as well as a production history of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV. ... Read more

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(The CD MP3 format will play on most NEW CD players and also DVD players and computers. It may not play on older CD players.)This is an unabridged reading, in Italian, of Pirandello's most famous novel, written in 1904.The narrator is the noted Italian stage actor, Claudio Carini.Reading time is 8 hours and 30 minutes. ... Read more

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Book is translated from the Italian by Lily Duplaix. Book contains 5 Sicilian Tales, 6 Tales of Humor and Irony, 7 Tales of Frustration and 4 tales of Anguish and Hope. ... Read more

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This is the Naked Truth
I'm a bit out on a limb here because the book I just read by Pirandello is "The Naked Truth" published in the mid 1930's.It is a collection of short stories including the title story.The book I'm rating a "5" here is not necessarily the same book.However, since each and every story was a joy to read, I believe that it is safe to recommend any collection of Pirandello short stories.The stories all take place in a rural Scicilian setting and they have the local flavor seasoned all through out.There is usually either a moral to the story, an implied deeper meaning, or an ironic twist.Among my favorites in "The Naked Truth" were the stories "The Annuity", "The Wayside Shrine", "The Wax Madonna", "The Red Booklet", "The Fly", and "The Benediction".

I initially picked up this book just to read a selection or two.Once I was midway through the first story, I was hooked.I have read other, longer works of the author and I enjoyed them.However, they were not as good as his short stories.I am looking forward to finding more of his short stories. ... Read more

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Decent Translation
It is a good translation of Pirandello.Of course I highly recommend Pirandello be read, and this is a worthwhile translation. ... Read more

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The Real and The Imaginary
Pirandello's execution is here exhibited in a pitch perfect symphonic staging. The Nobel Prize winning Italian author allows for the blurring of reality with art to take center stage, as existential absurdist tendencies of a transcendent consciousness adequately and subtly morph the spectacle of life into a vacillating universe where introspection is a projection of aloofness. The narrator is a cameraman for the fledgling movie industry in the early 1920s, and he seems to unravel the momentum of agency all around him are subject to. The Sysophian trade of being human is wrung to its dry core as being is culminated in a distant absent audition of one's own presence. It is undeniably a vintage Pirandello here, and even if his prefferred genra was the theatrical staging of like absurdist dramas, for reasons that are philosophical as much as literary, we read a narrative from the first person perspective that cradles the death of the actor, the indifference of being with abandon.
The primary reason for this review is not so much to praise Pirandello with accolades he has already been favoured by, rather it is to applaud the translator Nicoletta Sinborowski, who in her able, illuminating and sensible art infuses a work with the same scintillating force as the original. A previous translation by CK Scott Moncrieff had been unable to reproduce such a marvelous poetic incandescence in "Shoot!", the literal yet inaccurate rendition of the title "Si Gira!" which implies cyclical tendencies rather than violent adumbrations(yes Moncrieff, the outstanding translator of Proust, perhaps here in a moment of senility). We welcome Sinborowski's work, who in "The Late Mattia Pascal" and Mirbeau's "Abbe Jules" and "Sebastian Roch" has alreay identified herself as a major, budding presence in English literature. She may well do for such literature what Gregory Rabassa has done for Spanish works, or Louise Varese for Rimbaud, or William Weaver for Eco, not to mention the above critizied Moncrieff for Proust.
Intelligent, sparkling, eloquent, artistic, imaginative and nuanced to perfection in its lyrical and tonal stamp we welcome her for it seems that the days of JG Nichols (who has mauled many giants of Italian literature)of Willaim Fowlie's psychodelic homoerotic stutterings, or even Richard Howard's stagnant indiscretions are over, and a counterpart to the Spanish translators school, where we include Margaret Jull Costa, may yet grace us with brilliant renditions of literature that asks questions we should not avoid lest we become as prosaic as a JG Nichols' translation.
I am sure Luigi Pirandello is as grateful to Nicoletta Sinborowski as we are. ... Read more

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One of the twentieth century’s greatest literaryartists and winner of the Nobel prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello wrotethe novel Her Husband in 1911, before he produced any of thewell-known plays with which his name is most often associatedtoday. Her Husband—translated here for the first time intoEnglish—is a profoundly entertaining work, by turns funny, bitinglysatirical, and tinged with anguish. As important as any of the otherworks in Pirandello’s oeuvre, it portrays the complexities ofmale/female relations in the context of a newly emerging, small butvocal Italian feminist movement.

Evoking in vivid detail the literary world in Rome at the turn of thecentury, Her Husband tells the story of Silvia Roncella, a talentedyoung female writer, and her husband Giustino Boggiolo. The novelopens with their arrival in Rome after having left their provincialsouthern Italian hometown following the success of Silvia’s firstnovel, the rather humorously titled House of Dwarves. As his wife’sself-appointed (and self-important) promoter, protector, counselor,and manager, Giustino becomes the primary target of Pirandello’ssatire. But the couple’s relationship—and their dualcareer—is also complicated by a lively supporting cast ofcharacters, including literary bohemians with avant-garde pretensionsand would-be aristocratic esthetes who are all too aware of the newlyacquired power of journalists and the publishing establishment to makeor break their careers. Having based many of thecharacters—including Silvia and Giustino—on actual literaryacquaintances of his, Pirandello reacted to the novel’scontroversial reception by not allowing it to be reprinted after thefirst printing sold out. Not until after his death were copies againmade available in Italy.

Readers will find Her Husband eerily evocative of the present inmyriad ways—not the least of which is contemporary society’songoing transformation wrought by the changing roles of men and women,wives and husbands. ... Read more