Luigi Priandello, Author, Benito Ortolani, Editor, Luigi Pirandello, Author Princeton University Press $55 (440p) ISBN 978-0-691-03499-7
The 164 letters written by leading Italian dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) collected here date from 1926 until the playwright's death. Selected with explanatory chapter notes by Brooklyn College theater professor Ortolani, the emotional and...
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Luigi Pirandello, Author Dante University of America Press $11.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-937832-31-8
This volume gathers 20 stories by the late Nobel laureate, written between 1896 and 1935 and, for the most part, appearing here for the first time in English. As the title declares, all tell of suicide, and permeating the collection, from the...
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Luigi Pirandello, Author, William Weaver, Translator Eridanos Press $23 (262p) ISBN 978-0-941419-08-6
Universally recognized as one of the founding figures of modern drama and theater, Pirandello is virtually unknown here as a novelist and short story writer. Written in 1904, this novel touches on some of the themes that reverberate throughout his...
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Luigi Pirandello, Author, William Weaver, Translator Eridanos Press $17.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-941419-35-2
The great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author. Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his...
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Luigi Pirandello, Author, William Weaver, Translator, William Weaver, Introduction by Marsilio Publishers $12.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-941419-74-1
A cavalier comment about his nose sends Pirandello's protagonist careening disasterously towards madness and freedom in the Nobel laureate's expert 1926 novel. (Sept.)
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Luigi Pirandello, Author, Luigi Pirandello, Author, Pirandello, Author Duke University Press $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8223-2600-7
The Italian writer Grazia Deledda and her husband, Palmiro Madesani, were apparently the original models for the couple Pirandello rather spitefully anatomizes in this tale, the last of the Nobel-winning playwright's seven novels to appear in...
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