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War (Original title: Quando si comprende) is a short story by Italian playwright and dramatist Luigi Pirandello first published in the short story collection Un Cavallo nella Luna in 1918. [1] The story follows a discussion between parents of soldiers in the First World War about how they deal with grief.
Luigi Pirandello claimed to have Greek origins in an interview to Kostas Ouranis in 1934. His father, Stefano Pirandello, belonged to a wealthy family involved in the sulphur industry, and his mother, Caterina Ricci Gramitto, was also of a well-to-do background, descending from a family of the bourgeois professional class of Agrigento.
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, prose writer and poet. Pirandello wrote more than 100 short stories, 40 plays and seven novels, including The Late Mattia Pascal (1904). Regarded as a major figure in 20th-century theatre, his plays explore psychology, the ego and identity issues and paved the way for absurd theatre in the 1950s.
Performance by the Pirandello Theatre of Art, Rome, given in London in 1925: the Manager/Director with the family. An acting company prepares to rehearse the play The Rules of the Game by Luigi Pirandello. As the rehearsal is about to begin, they are unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of six strange people.
Luigi Pirandello's 1913 novel I vecchi e i giovani (The Old and the Young) retraces the history of the failure and repression of the Fasci Siciliani in the period from 1893–94. [58] Although Pirandello was not an active member of this movement, he had close ties of friendship with some of its leading ideologists: Rosario Garibaldi Bosco ...
Background [ edit ] Since seeing a Paris production of Pirandello's play Sei personnaggi in cerca d'autore , L'Herbier had been eager to collaborate with the author on a film of one of his works, but hitherto Pirandello had been unwilling to give permission for any adaptations because he would not accept the compromises that were asked of him.
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Italian dramatist and academic Luigi Pirandello was also influential in the solidification of 'Theatre of the Grotesque' as a dramatic movement. [3] Many of the comedic conventions of this style have grounds in his conceptualisation of 'umorismo', and his play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), is regarded as one of the first major ...