Pirandello

American  

[pir-uhn-del-oh, pee-rahn-del-law] / ˌpɪr ənˈdɛl oʊ, ˌpi rɑnˈdɛl lɔ /

noun

1. Luigi 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1934.

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Pirandello British  

/ piranˈdɛllo /

noun

1. Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1867–1936, Italian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist. His plays include Right you are ( If you think so ) (1917), Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), and Henry IV (1922): Nobel prize for literature 1934

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Example Sentences

And as a man of the theater who directed plays by the likes of Pirandello and Beckett, Camilleri was no stranger to unorthodoxy.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021

The show generates a good deal of screwball energy with these constant scrambles to its own verbal surface, which variously evokes “Airplane!” and Pirandello.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 19, 2020

Half of the students used Twitter to analyze “The Late Mattia Pascal,” the 1904 novel by Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, which satirizes issues of self-knowledge and self-destruction.

From The Verge • May 31, 2019

Pirandello, who was similarly drawn to dissolving the boundary between reality and illusion, once made the crucial distinction between depicting chaos and depicting chaotically.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2018

Each in his own way, and two other plays, by Luigi Pirandello; from the Italian by Arthur Livingston. © 11Dec23, A765393.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1951 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office