Pagine1867–1936 · Agrigento, Sicily · also known as Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello questioned what is real and who we really are. In the novel The Late Mattia Pascal (1904) a man reads his own obituary and starts a new life; in the play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) unfinished characters invade a rehearsal demanding to be performed. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934.
Begin with Six Characters in Search of an Author.
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Luigi Pirandello questioned what is real and who we really are. In the novel The Late Mattia Pascal (1904) a man reads his own obituary and starts a new life; in the play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) unfinished characters invade a rehearsal demanding to be performed.
Six Characters in Search of an Author is usually considered Luigi Pirandello’s best-known work, followed by The Late Mattia Pascal, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand.
Most readers start with Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Both refer to the same writer.
Many of Luigi Pirandello’s works are in the public domain; we link to free editions below.