Luigi Pirandello Quotes


Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.


Citations

Pirandello, Luigi. The Late Mattia Pascal. Translated by Arthur Livingston, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1923, p. 213.

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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
  • Born: June 28, 1867
  • Died: December 10, 1936
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Writer

Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre.". He was an Italian nationalist and supported Fascism in a moderate way, giving his Nobel Prize medal to the Fascist government to be melted down for the Abyssinia Campaign. Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.