Books by Luigi Pirandello

Evoking in vivid detail the literary world in Rome at the turn of the century, this title tells the story of Silvia Roncella, a talented young female writer, and her husband Giustino Boggiolo. It opens with their arrival in Rome after having left their provincial southern Italian hometown following the success of Silvia's first novel.

First published in 1915 in Italian, Luigi Pirandello's Shoot! follows the life of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio during the heady days of early motion pictures. Gubbio's 'journal' allows Pirandello to grapple with modernist themes of isolation and madness.

"Sagen er den, at jeg – Gud skal vide, hvor jeg lider under det – allerede nu er død, oven i købet to gange, den første ganske vist ved en fejltagelse og den anden – ja, det er den historie, jeg nu skal fortælle."Mathias Pascal er fanget i et ligegyldigt job som assisterende bibliotekar ved en antikveret og uordentlig kommunal bogsamling, i et mislykket ægteskab og med en plagsom svigermor. Hans eneste glæder og kærlighed er hans tvillingedøtre og hans mor – som alle dør.En dag tager han i al hemmelighed til Monte Carlo, hvor han begynder at spille. Takket være et usædvanligt held har han snart vundet en formue, og da han på vejen hjem nogle dage senere læser i en avis, at man har fundet ham død i mølledammen på en af familiens ejendomme, ser han sit snit til begynde en ny tilværelse, og slår sig ned i Rom under navnet Adriano Meis. Det skal imidlertid vise sig ikke at være så let, og efterhånden opdager han, at hele hans liv og den frihed fra sin fortid, han troede at have opnået, er én stor løgn, og i virkeligheden et endnu værre fængsel end hans tidligere miserable tilværelse."Salig Mathias Pascal" er Luigi Pirandellos mest kendte roman, og som så mange af hans værker en studie i identitet og eksistens. I denne udgave er medtaget en senere efterskrift, "Digterfantasiens betænkeligheder", som Pirandello skrev i 1921, om forfatterens "pligt" til at sandsynliggøre sine figurers handlinger, selv om virkeligheden netop ikke altid er sandsynlig.

In February 1925, the 58-year-old world-famous playwright Luigi Pirandello met Marta Abba, an unknown, beautiful actress less than half his age, and fell in love with her. She was to become, until his death in December 1936, not only his confidante but also his inspiring muse and artistic collaborator, helping him in his plans to reform Italian theater under the Fascist regime. Pirandello's love for the young actress was neither a literary infatuation nor a form of fatherly affection, but rather an unfulfilled, desperate passion that secretly consumed him during the last decade of his life. Bitterly disillusioned by the conditions of the theatrical world in Italy, Pirandello and Abba shared a dream of going abroad to earn their fortune and returning to Italy with the means to establish a national theater dedicated to high artistic standards. In March 1929, when Marta finally yielded to family pressure and left Pirandello alone in Berlin to revive her Italian stage career and to end rumors over their involvement, he endured a devastating heartbreak and fell into a life-threatening depression--more profound and long-lasting than any of his biographers have yet imagined. The hundreds of letters Pirandello wrote to Abba during these years are the only source that reveals the true story of his relentless torment. Selected, translated, and introduced here for the first time in any language, these powerful and moving documents reward the reader with the unique experience of living in intimacy with a profound poet of human pain. Here Pirandello encourages his beloved in her difficult career as actor/manager, rejoices in her triumphs, and desperately implores her to return to him. The letters are filled with glimpses of this major artistic personality at some of his most distinctive moments--such as the award of the Nobel Prize, his meetings with Mussolini, and Marta's long-dreamed-of success on Broadway--but they remain foremost an authentic confession of a Pirandello, without the mask of his art, telling the story of his real-life tragedy. In 1986, two years before she died, Marta Abba authorized the publication of the present correspondence so that the world might understand how deeply Pirandello had suffered. This English-language volume contains a selection of 164 letters from the complete edition of 552, which Princeton University Press will publish in cooperation with Mondadori, in the original Italian, in 1995.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

For twenty years he lives this illusion but today a plot is being hatched to shock him out of this 'madness' and into the twenty-first century.Pirandello's Henry IV, in Tom Stoppard's new version, premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in May 2004.

Pirandello is a seminal figure in modern drama. This is the only one-volume edition of his two most famous plays, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV, and his last unfinished masterpiece The Mountain Giants, in lively and performable new translations that remain faithful to the letter and spirit of the originals.

Luigi Pirandellos berømteste roman, er en besk-humoristisk beretning om en ynkelig vogter af et gammelt overset bibliotek, hvis tilværelse forpestes af de to kvinder i hans liv – hans rappenskralde af en hustru og den afskyelige svigermor. Men en dag forlader han det hele uden at sige et ord til sine omgivelser, og da alle tror, han har begået selvmord, kan Mathias Pascals nye tilværelse begynde …Den italienske forfatter og dramatiker Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) modtog Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1934. Mest kendt er han for skuespillene "Seks personer søger en forfatter" og "Henrik IV" samt for romanen "Mathias Pascal".

Six strangers turn up in a rehearsal room and demand that their story be acted out by the assembled company. As the actors perform, the increasingly gruesome story becomes frighteningly real.

Documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. This book captures early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and reveals its truths as only a parody can.

Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too late: his job is gone, his wife has remarried. Mattia Pascal's fate is to live on as the ghost of the man he was.An explorer of identity and its mysteries, a connoisseur of black humor, Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters. The Late Mattia Pascal, here rendered into English by the outstanding translator William Weaver, offers an irresistible introduction to this great writer's work

Six people arrive at a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them.

A brand new adaptation of Pirandello's first play

Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people, they are characters from an unwritten play. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, the director invites them to act out the key events of their lives.

Translated from the Italian, this volume includes plays such as "Six Characters in Search of an Author", "The tragedy Henry IV", and "So It Is, (If You Think So)".

Luigi Pirandello udtrykte sig i mange genrer, men blev verdenskendt som dramatiker ved med sin leg med teaterillusioner at sprænge naturalismen, og han står for mange bag modernismens gennembrud på scenen. I 1934 fik han da også nobelprisen "for sin dristige og geniale genoplivning af dramatisk og naturskøn kunst". Der er dog i Pirandellos digtning, at han er menneskene nærmest og mindst dirigeret af principper om opløsning, fx opløsningen af jeg’et.