Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780140189223
Book Description
A volume of plays from the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, including his most popular and controversial work A Penguin Classic Pirandello is brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre. This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search of an Author, in which six characters invade the stage and demand to be included in the play. The tragedy Henry IV dramatizes the lucid madness of a man who may be King. In So It Is (If You Think So), the townspeople exercise a morbid curiosity attempting to discover “the truth” about the Ponza family. Each of these plays can lay claim to being Pirandello’s masterpiece, and in exploring the nature of human personality, each one stretches the resources of drama to their limits. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Characters and Authors in Luigi Pirandello
Author : Ann Caesar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198151760
Book Description
Luigi Pirandello is best known in the English-speaking world for his radical challenge to traditional Western theatre with plays such as Six Characters in Search of an Author. But theatre is just one manifestation of his experiments with language which led to a remarkable collection of novels,short stories, and essays as well as his work for a film industry then in its infancy. This study, which is based on the view that Pirandello's writings are most fruitfully discussed in a European context, takes as its starting-point the author's belief in the primacy of the literary character in acreative process which is necessarily conflictual.The book argues that all Pirandello's characters are engaged in a continual performance which transcends the genre distinction between narrative and dramatic forms. In this performance it is the spoken word in which the characters invest most heavily as they struggle to sustain an identity of theirown, tell their life-stories, and assert themselves before their most prominent antagonist, the author himself.
Ideas of the Twentieth Century
Author : Daniel Bonevac
Publisher : Tower Books, University of Texas Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0292759983
Book Description
The twentieth century ushered in significant progress, as philosophers, scientists, artists, and poets across the world improved the way we lived. Yet the last century also brought increased levels of war, tyranny, and genocide, and people lost faith in values. Now, thinkers and leaders are reconstructing theories of value and creating institutions to embody them. In this thought-provoking, broad-sweeping course, you will learn how philosophy, art, literature, and history shaped the past century and continue to impact our world today.
Naked Masks
Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1957-09-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0452010829
Book Description
This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century. Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally original plays dramatize with force and eloquence the isolation of the individual from society and from himself. The editor, Eric Bentley, is an international theater authority. In addition to the Introduction and the biographical and bibliographical material in the Appendices, Mr. Bentley has prepared for this volume the first English translations of the play Liolà and Pirandello’s important “Preface” to Six Characters in Search of an Author. Included Plays: Liolà It Is So! (If You Think So) Henry IV Six Characters in Search of an Author Each in His Own Way
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
In Luigi Pirandello's thought-provoking novel, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, the protagonist, Vitangelo Moscarda, undergoes a profound identity crisis after a casual remark from his wife. This sets him on a journey of self-discovery, questioning the nature of reality, identity, and the multifaceted perceptions others have of him. Through a series of philosophical musings and encounters with various characters, Moscarda grapples with the fragmented nature of the self and the illusions that shape our understanding of the world.
Stories for the Years
Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0300255667
Book Description
Regarded as one of Europe’s great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable sense of the crushing burdens of class, gender, and social conventions. Set in the author’s birthplace of Sicily, where the arid terrain and isolated villages map the fragile interior world of his characters, and in Rome, where modern life threatens centuries-old traditions, these original stories are sun baked with the deep lore of Italian folktales. In “The Jar,” a broken earthenware pot pits its owner, a quarrelsome landholder, against a clever inventor of a mysterious glue. “The Dearly Departed” tells the story of a young widow and her new husband on their honeymoon, haunted at every turn by the sly visage of the deceased. The scorned lover, the despondent widow, the intransigent bureaucrat, the wretched peasant—Pirandello’s characters expose the human condition in all its fatalism, injustice, and raw beauty. For lovers of Calvino and Pasolini, these picturesque stories preserve a memory of an Italy long gone, but one whose recurring concerns still speak to us today.
Tales of Suicide
Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780937832318
Book Description
Suicide, the act of killing oneself voluntarily and intentionally, is clearly one of the most important themes developed by Pirandello during his long literary career. Although he never focused on self-destruction as an end in itself, he made ample use of it to dramatise his tragic view of the human condition. Indeed, this theme recurs with astonishing frequency in his short stories, play and novels. It even appears sporadically in his poetry.
Plays
Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Alma Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Italian drama
ISBN : 9781847491442
Book Description
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Loveless Love
Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0714549894
Book Description
In The Wave , a young man falls dangerously in love with the tenant downstairs, who is engaged to be married; in The Signorina , a flirtatious young woman is caught between her feelings and her parents desire for a good match; in A Friend to the Wives , the peerless Pia Tolosani leaves a trail of regret in the life of a former suitor.In this collection of stories Pirandello s first published work of fiction the master of Italian modernism dissects the passions that are either dimly felt or unrequited, ultimately raising doubts about the very nature and existence of love, while simultaneously foreshadowing the themes and the psychologically nuanced characters that he would go on to develop in his later works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The 101 Pages series has been created with the aim of redefining and enriching the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. These texts have been treated with a fresh editorial approach, and are presented in an elegantly designed format.
