biography
pronunciation:
[pirandeloh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1867–1936)
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| biography:
| Playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, born in Girgenti, Sicily, S Italy. He studied philology at Rome and Bonn, becoming a lecturer in literature at Rome (1897–1922). After writing powerful and realistic novels and short stories, such as Il fu Mattia Pascal (1903, The Late Mattia Pascal), he turned to the theatre and became a leading exponent of contemporary drama. The main theme of his work is the relativity of the human condition, where true and false are the same. The result is a nihilism which leaves no certainties. Among his plays are Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (1921, Six Characters in Search of an Author), Enrico IV (1922, Henry IV) and Come tu mi vuoi (1930, As You Desire Me). In 1925 he established a theatre of his own in Rome, the Teatro d'Arte, and his company took his plays all over Europe. Many of his later plays have been filmed. In 1934 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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