Luigi Pirandello
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936) · Italy · Writers · Died at 69
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Something wrong?He made a living dissolving the fourth wall decades before absurdism had a name. Pirandello turned plays into puzzles where characters knew they were trapped in scripts and reality folded back on itself - tragic, farcical, and unnerving in equal measure.
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, Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
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Born in Sicily on 28 June 1867, Luigi Pirandello wrote across every form - novels, poetry, hundreds of short stories, some forty plays - often in his native Sicilian. His dramatic work rewired the theatre: instead of neat plots, he gave audiences structures that questioned their own existence, characters aware of being watched, reality as a construct that could crack mid-scene. The method was bold enough to be called ingenious, strange enough to prefigure the Theatre of the Absurd by a generation. In 1934 the Nobel committee gave him the literature prize for reviving dramatic and scenic art. He died in Rome on 10 December 1936, two years after the win, leaving a canon that still makes audiences unsure where the stage ends and the trap begins.
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