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Pirandello, Luigi
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Pirandello, Luigi
Italian dramatist, novelist, and short-story writer. His plays, which often deal with the themes of illusion and reality, and the tragicomic absurdity of life, include Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore/Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), and Enrico IV/Henry IV (1922). Among his novels are L'esclusa/The Outcast (1901), Il fu Mattia Pascal/The Late Mattia Pascal (1904), and I vecchi e i giovani/The Old and the Young (1909). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934.
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Pirandello earned a European reputation as a dramatist, both for the technical brilliance and originality of his method and for his metaphysical choice of subject. The themes and innovative techniques of his plays anticipated the work of Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Jean Anouilh, and Jean Genet. His recurrent preoccupation was the impossibility of any absolute objective reality, and the relative nature of personality.
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