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

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.

My opinion is a view I hold until—well-until I find out something that changes it.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

A fact is like a sack which won’t stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist.

Woe to him who doesn’t know how to wear his mask, be he king or Pope!

Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

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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.