Life and creativity of Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello is known in Europe as a playwright and novelist. He has published more than 200 novels, 4 poems and 2 volumes with essays. In his plays realistic performance is interrupted by fantastic scenes and characters. He explores with compassionate diligence the issues of social roles. He is interested in the threats faced by the personal identity that has come to the point of view of others. Pirandello explores the interactions between the real reality of life and the fictional reality of the theater, which penetrates into the mysterious areas of utopia, myth, and unconscious. Pirandello's life: Pirandello was born on 28 June 1867 in Agrigento. After studying the literature of Europe in Palermo, Rome and Bonn settled in Rome in 1893. He writes the realistic novel "Exile from Society," in which he traces the fate of a woman unfairly accused of committing adultery. She regains her former social status only after she actually does the offense she is accused of. The first collection of Pirandello's "Loving Adventures without Love" was published in 1894.

image source

In 1898, Pirandello established the theater "Ariel", in which his first play, entitled "The Epilogue" and later "Mengemato", appeared. Pirandello returns to the novel after "The Mind of Others": In the novel "Matthias Pascal" (1903), a man pretends to have died with the intention of starting a new life after his staged death, but returns to his family again; in the novel "The Old and Young" (1909), it recreates the clash of generations in Sicily immediately after its unification. After 20 years of literary work, in 1910, he gave his first two plays "Mengemato" and "The Cats / Fruit of the Cedar / of Sicily" for stage performance. Since 1903, signs of severe psychiatric disorder have begun to appear in his wife, Anthony, who will only be admitted to a mental hospital in 1919. She died in 1959. In 1911, Pirandello adapted for the stage his novel "The Doctor's Debt", which will be presented only in 1913 in Rome. In 1915, Pirandello published his novel "It Takes", which will be reissued in 1925 under the new title "Serafino Gubio, the Cinematographer". He is dedicated to the world of cinema and analyzes the decomposition of reality through the eyepiece of the camera.

In 1516 he adapted Sicilian dialect to his novel, "Keep Yourself, Jacobino.Recognizing his talent as a playwright only after the performance in Milan of his play "The Reason of Others". After the failure of his play "Six faces seeks author," the playwright Pirandello achieved a real triumph with the same work in Milan. After a first tour in 1923 in Paris and New York, the Italian company "Teatro d'Arte di Roma", headed by Pirandello, presented "Ship to God's Contribution" in Germany, Great Britain and France. Diana and Tuda was founded in Zurich in 1926. While abroad, Pirandello creates many significant plays during this period, which will be played for the first time on stage outside Italy. In 1934, when Pirandello became widely spoken, the member of the fascist party, though not accepting her slogans, received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many of Pirandello's plays are still filmed while he's alive, for example "Henry IV" . Insanity as an outlet is a common motive in Pirandello's work. In the masterpiece Enrico IV ", 1922 madness is not only a temporary mask but also a desired final. Henry IV builds an illusory world around him and is hiding in him - not only counselors and kisses are masks, but roles must be played by all who visit him. After cessation of disease, madness becomes a well-thought-out strategy. It is the last mask that has a great liberating power in Pirandello. Pirandello's craziness can make the world kneel in front of him. The film adaptation of his novel "Mute " is the first Italian-made film to be released. In 1930, the American company Metro Goldwyn Meyer filmed "As You Want Me" starring Greta Garbo. While in Rome, "Keep Yourself, Giacomino," Pirandello writes a dialogue about the new film adaptation of his novel "Mattia Pascal". Pirandello developed severe pneumonia during the filming and died on December 19, 1936.