Luigi Pirandello

Birth: 1867-06-28 , Agrigento

Death: 1936-12-10 , Roma

Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century. His works often explore the nature of reality, identity, and madness, challenging traditional theatrical conventions.

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1934

Nobel de Literatura

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually to authors who have produced outstanding works in the field of literature, with an ideal geared towards humanity.

Poems List

Yes, but haven’t you perceived that it isn’t possible to live in front of a mirror which not only freezes us with the image of ourselves, but throws our likeness back at us with a horrible grimace?

Women are like dreams—they are never the way you would like to have them.

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won’t work out.

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Pretending is a virtue. If you can’t pretend, you can’t be king.

Life is little more than a loan shark: it exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We’re all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

When [man] is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn t analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

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Luigi Pirandello was born in Agrigento, Sicily. His work is characterized by a profound skepticism towards objective reality and the human capacity to grasp it. He explored themes such as the relativism of truth, the multiplicity of personality, and the social mask that each individual wears. Plays like "Six Characters in Search of an Author" and "Henry IV" are milestones of modern theater, introducing the concept of metatheatre and questioning the very nature of stage representation. His novels and short stories also reflect these philosophical concerns, with characters often in conflict with their own identities and with society.