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	Pirandello - MSN Encarta
		Pirandello was born in Agrigento, Sicily, and educated at the Universities of Rome and Bonn.
		Pirandello's writings deal mainly with people of the lower middle class and are concerned with philosophical ideas such as the human conflict between instinct and reason, which often leads to an existence full of inconsistencies.
		Pirandello also asserts that specific actions are not right or wrong in themselves, but only in the way that humans regard them, and that an individual has not one definite personality but many, depending on how that person appears to the people with whom he or she comes in contact.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577925/Pirandello_Luigi.html (411 words)

	Biographical Information about Luigi Pirandello
		Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867 in Girgenti (now Agrigento) on the island of Sicily.
		Luigi's father was a fairly prosperous sulphur dealer and intended that his son should follow in his footsteps, but the boy demonstrated a studious bent early on, and as a result, he was provided with a literary schooling.
		Pirandello was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, and continued to experience a great deal of critical success until the time of his death in 1936.
	eslbee.com /short_stories/bio_luigi_pirandello.htm (819 words)

	Renzo Piano - Biography & Achievements
		Luigi Pirandello was one among those writers who was awarded the Noble prize in literature in 1934.
		Pirandello was born on 28th June, 1867 into a middle class family in a village named Caos, a suburb in Girgenti (now Agrigento) a town in southern Sicily.
		Luigi in search of better knowledge in the department of letters moved to Rome in the year 1887 but to his much disappointment he couldn’t find what he expected from the great city.
	www.ultimateitaly.com /peoples/luigi-pirandello.html (1627 words)

	Pirandello, Luigi Criticism and Essays
		Pirandello was awarded international acclaim for the philosophic probing of his plays, and the same themes are found in his short stories, many of which he subsequently adapted for the stage.
		Pirandello initially refused to have her hospitalized, and he took refuge from her irrational abuse by escaping to his study to write.
		Pirandello wrote enough for two careers, one as a playwright, one as an author of fiction, and the immense success of his dramas is at least partially responsible for the relative neglect shown his short stories by general readers.
	www.enotes.com /short-story-criticism/pirandello-luigi (1277 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Luigi Pirandello
		Pirandello instead kept her at home for seventeen years during which she insanely terrorized him and his three children.
		Pirandello?s first widely acclaimed novel, The Late Mattia Pascal, was written in 1904.
		Pirandello?s death was celebrated with a state funeral in spite of instructions for his funeral that stated: "When I am dead, do not clothe me. Wrap me naked in a sheet.
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	Luigi Pirandello (1867 - 1936)
		Luigi's father was a fairly prosperous sulphur dealer and intended that his son should follow in his footsteps, but the boy demonstrated a studious bent early on, and as a result, he was provided with a literary schooling.
		Pirandello's first creative efforts were in the realm of verse--he translated Goethe's Roman elegies--but after falling under the influence of Sicilian novelist Capuana who became his friend and advisor, Pirandello turned his attention to naturalistic fiction.
		Pirandello was clearly the greatest Italian playwright of his time, and he has left a lasting mark on all the playwrights that have followed him.
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	Luigi Pirandello - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Luigi Pirandello ranks as the most important and innovative Italian dramatist of the early 20th century.
		Winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in literature, Pirandello expressed the confusion and suffering of the human condition in disturbing yet humorous ways.
		His dramas focused primarily on the inherent instability of human existence, specifically the conflict of reason and instinct within the human mind.
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	Drama: Luigi Pirandello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was an Italian short-story writer and novelist, a secondary school teacher, and finally a playwright.
		Pirandello's short stories and novels show the consistent pattern of his plays: a deep examination of what we know to be real and a questioning of our confidence in our beliefs.
		Pirandello's influence in modern theater resulted from his experimentation with the concept of realism that dominated drama from the time of Strindberg and Ibsen.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/pirandello.htm (369 words)

	Luigi Pirandello
		Pirandello's first creative efforts were in the realm of verse--he translated Goethe's Roman elegies--but after falling under the influence of Sicilian novelist Capuana who became his friend and advisor, Pirandello turned his attention to naturalistic fiction.
		Pirandello was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, and at the time of his death in 1936, he was in negotiations to appear in a film version of Six Characters.
		Pirandello was clearly the greatest Italian playwright of his time, and he has left a lasting mark on all the playwrights that have followed him.
	www.drama21c.net /writers/pirandello.htm (1376 words)

	Luigi Pirandello - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934.
		Pirandello was born into a middle-class family in a village with the curious name of Caos (Chaos), a poor suburb of Girgenti (Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily).
		Pirandello is an author who does not let himself be taken by surprise in the territories of the unconscious; his art is not an escape into the shadows nor does it represent a plane of direct conflict with man's interior phantasms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luigi_Pirandello (5070 words)

	Luigi Pirandello
		PIRANDELLO was born in 1867 in the ancient town of Agrigento, Sicily.
		Luigi Pirandello - A biographical sketch of the Italian playwright.
		Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) - A biography of the Italian dramatist.
	www.theatredatabase.com /20th_century/luigi_pirandello_001.html (355 words)

	Luigi Pirandello Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Pirandello died on Dec. 10, 1936, in his Roman apartment, which subsequently was declared a national monument and houses the Centro di Studi Pirandelliani.
		Pirandello's ashes were transferred to his birthplace, where they now rest in a huge rock under a solitary pine tree, a setting he had imagined for his birth in his unfinished Informazioni sul mio involontario soggiorno sulla terra.
		Whereas Pirandello's importance as an innovator in the field of drama is undisputed, in general his novels do not depart from the conventional form of the genre.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/luigi-pirandello (1658 words)

	Luigi Pirandello - NYRB
		Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was born in Agrigento, Sicily, the son of a rich mining contractor.
		Pirandello was the author of novels, essays, stories, and more than fifty plays, as well as an influence on writers as different as Eugène Ionesco and T.S. Eliot.
		Nobel Prize—winner Luigi Pirandello is at once the most teasing and profound of modern masters, a connoisseur of ironies and impossibilities, and The Late Mattia Pascal is undoubtedly his most polished performance as a writer of fiction.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/10618 (200 words)

	Luigi Pirandello - Best of Sicily Magazine
		Luigi Pirandello was one of Sicily's most gifted modern authors, and certainly one of the most prolific.
		Luigi's father had actively supported the unification of Italy in 1860, and had openly resented the Bourbons who ruled until the Savoys took over.
		Pirandello, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, may have become a nationalist, but he was rarely a blind conformist.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art199.htm (506 words)

	Three Plays, L. Pirandello, 1922
		The object of Pirandello's hitter irony is not the stage-manager, nor the theatrical producer, nor even the dramatic critic: it is the dramatist; it is the artist; it is, in the end, life itself.
		Pirandello, approaching the sixties, to be sure, is nevertheless in spirit a man of the younger Italian generation, which, trained by Croce and Gentile, has "learned how to think." But however great his delight in playing with "actual idealism," he knows the difference between a drama and a philosophical dissertation.
		It is typical of Pirandello for its rapidity, its harshness and its violence -- the skill with which the tense tableau is drawn out of pure dialectic, pure "conversation." Moreover, it states a fundamental preoccupation of Pirandello in peculiarly lucid and striking fashion.
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	ArtandCulture Artist: Luigi Pirandello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luigi Pirandello was always ahead of his time, scandalizing hoi polloi with ultra-Modernist experiments in structure, narrative, and staging.
		Her fate was the catalyst for Pirandello’s interest in psychology and the instability of personal identity.
		Pirandello became enthralled with the theater, sometimes completing a full-length play in as little as a week.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=705 (574 words)

	Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
		Luigi Pirandello spent the first nineteen years of his life uneventfully in Sicily.
		Pirandello wrote novels and short stories during some thirty years before he began writing for the stage.
		Some critics claim that the reason for the lack of interest in Pirandello's writings in inherent in the stories themselves; others, that the lack of recognition was due to the fact that he was a genius a quarter-century ahead of his time.
	www.theatrehistory.com /italian/pirandello001.html (430 words)

	Pirandello
		Pirandello best described his art and his personality when he said, "I have tried to tell something to other men, without any ambition, except perhaps that of avenging myself for having been born."
		Luigi Pirandello was a complex man, whose unique style of writing underscores and enhances the mystique of his own personality, and the tragedy and trauma of his personal life.
		This web site of the Pirandello Society of America will not only keep his memory alive, but for those of us who wish to perpetuate his work it will enrich our own perceptions and observations about this unique individual and his equally complex creations.
	pirandello.homestead.com (237 words)

	Luigi Pirandello Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		Pirandello's plays are often seen as forerunners for the theatre of the absurd.
		Art was for Pirandello the ultimate paradox, in which reality is both true and false, and in which the unmasking of illusion often causes violence.
		Pirandello's dissertation, written in Germany, dealt with the dialect of his native region.
	www.litweb.net /biography/197/complete_index.html (841 words)

	The Story of Italian Opera
		Luigi Pirandello was a playwright, novelist, short story writer, poet and one of the leading dramatists of the twentieth century.
		Believing that life was rendered ridiculous by self deception, Pirandello filled his writings with "bitter compassion for all those who fool themselves." He was forty-two when he penned his autobiographical sketch and had not yet entered upon his career as a dramatist.
		Luigi Pirandello died in Rome on December 10, 1936.
	www.pirandello.com /pirandello.html (1002 words)

	Luigi Pirandello + Pierre Paul Broca
		It was on this date, June 28, 1867, that Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello was born in Girgenti (now Agrigento) on the island of Sicily.
		Unable to afford the institutionalization she needed, Pirandello and his children endured her abuse for 15 years, until he had established himself as Italy's foremost living playwright.
		In this 1921 play, Pirandello's characters rebel against their creator, attack the foundation of the play, refuse to follow stage directions and interfere with the structure of the play until, like his wife, it breaks down.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0628b-almanac.htm (618 words)

	Luigi Pirandello Biography and Summary
		Luigi Pirandello(June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934.
		Biography Pirandello was born into a middle-class family in a village with the curious na...
		The triangular basis of a number of plays (old man-young woman-young man; husband-wife-lover) might place Pirandello squarely in the tradition of both classical and boulevard comedy were it not for the absence of, or at least the lack of emphasis on, romantic love.
	www.bookrags.com /Luigi_Pirandello (341 words)

	AllRefer.com - Luigi Pirandello (Italian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		One of the great figures in 20th-century European theater, Pirandello was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature.
		Lack of public recognition, the failure of his father's mining business, and the 14-year-long insanity of his wife may account in part for the pessimism of his work.
		Pirandello's works are influential models for later existential drama.
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	Luigi Pirandello
		In February 1925, the 58-year-old world-famous playwright Luigi Pirandello met Marta Abba, an unknown, beautiful actress less than half his age, and fell in love with her.
		Pirandello's love for the young actress was neither a literary infatuation nor a form of fatherly affection, but rather an unfulfilled, desperate passion that secretly consumed him during the last decade of his life.
		Bitterly disillusioned by the conditions of the theatrical world in Italy, Pirandello and Abba shared a dream of going abroad to earn their fortune and returning to Italy with the means to establish a national theater dedicated to high artistic standards.
	www.actorsbone.com /Library/Authors/PirandelloLuigi.html (994 words)

	Luigi Pirandello - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Luigi Pirandello was born of rich, middle-class parents in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, on 28 June 1867.
		Financial disaster and a severe illness brought on by the birth of their third child drove his wife to a hysterical form of insanity.
		Pirandello's first real success in the theatre came about in 1921 when Six Characters in Search of an Author was performed.
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	Luigi Pirandello - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pirandello is always preoccupied with the problem of identity.
		His characters attempt to fulfil their self-seeking roles and are defeated by life itself which, always changing, enables them to see their perversity.
		This is Pirandello's humour, an irony which arises from the contradictions inherent in life.
	nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1934/pirandello-bio.html (481 words)

	Luigi Pirandello
		Luigi Pirandello was born in Agrigento in 1867 from a wealthy bourgeois family.
		His interest in philology led him to attend university in Palermo, Rome and Bonn, where he took his degree in 1891 with a thesis on Greek-Sicilian dialects and worked one year as a lecturer in Italian.
		As testified by his working, including novels, plays and essays, Pirandello can be regarded as one of the foremost Italian and European authors of the early 20C.
	www.sicilytourist.com /ag/agrigentoenglish/luigi_pirandello.htm (275 words)

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