Bøger af Luigi Pirandello

Robert Brustein's highly acclaimed adaptation of Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality which follows a group of characters who try to fashion their life stories into acceptable drama. Plays for Performance Series.

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".

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

Pirandello's ingenious detective story about a young woman who is hounded by the press after the death of a child in her care..

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.

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.

A selection of short stories by the famous Italian author, who won the Nobel-prize in 1934.Easy Readers er bearbejdede og forkortede udgaver af romaner og noveller. De findes på niveau A, B, C og D, hvor A er lettest. Niveauerne relaterer til Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (level A2 til B2).