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Understanding Luigi Pirandello Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
author
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Bassanese, Fiora A.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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1570030812
print isbn13
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9781570030819
ebook isbn13
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9780585337272
language
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English
subject
Pirandello, Luigi,--1867-1936--Criticism and interpretation.
publication date
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1997
lcc
:
PQ4835.I7Z53478 1997eb
ddc
:
852/.912
subject
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Pirandello, Luigi,--1867-1936--Criticism and interpretation.
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Understanding Luigi Pirandello
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UNDERSTANDING MODERN EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
JAMES HARDIN, Series Editor
volumes on
Ingeborg Bachmann
Samuel Beckett
Thomas Bernhard
Johannes Bobrowski
Heinrich Bll
Italo Calvino
Albert Camus
Elias Canetti
Cline
Jos Donoso
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Max Frisch
Federico Garca Lorca
Gabriel Garca Mrquez
Juan Goytisolo
Gnter Grass
Gerhart Hauptmann
Christoph Hein
Eugne Ionesco
Milan Kundera
Primo Levi
Luigi Pirandello
Graciliano Ramos
Erich Maria Remarque
Jean-Paul Sartre
Claude Simon
Mario Vargas Llosa
Franz Werfel
Peter Weiss
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Understanding Luigi Pirandello
Fiora A. Bassanese
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1997 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bassanese, Fiora A. Understanding Luigi Pirandello / Fiora A. Bassanese. p. cm. (Understanding modern European and Latin American literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57003-081-2 1. Pirandello, Luigi, 18671936Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PQ4835.I7Z53478 1996 852'.912dc20 96-25198
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For my mother, Adalgisa Furlan Bassanese
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Contents
Editor's Preface
viii
Preface
ix
Chronology
xi
Chapter 1 The International Provincial
1
Chapter 2 The Late Mattia Pascal and Goddess Luck
22
Chapter 3 Right You Are (If You Think So) and the Crisis of Reality
42
Chapter 4 Moscarda's Nose, or the Disintegration of the Individual
63
Chapter 5 Henry IV's Sane Madness
76
Chapter 6 The Theater Plays
97
Chapter 7 The Myths
121
Chapter 8 Other Works
136
Notes
157
Selected Bibliography
171
Index
189
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Editor's Preface
Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature has been planned as a series of guides for undergraduate and graduate students and nonacademic readers. Like the volumes in its companion series Understanding Contemporary American Literature, these books provide introductions to the lives and writings of prominent modern authors and explicates their most important works.
Modern literature makes special demands, and this is particularly true of foreign literature, in which the reader must contend not only with unfamiliar, often arcane artistic conventions and philosophical concepts, but also with the handicap of reading the literature in translation. It is a truism that the nuances of one language can be rendered in another only imperfectly (and this problem is especially acute in fiction), but the fact that the works of European and Latin American writers are situated in a historical and cultural setting quite different from our own can be as great a hindrance to the understanding of these works as the linguistic barrier. For this reason the UMELL series emphasizes the sociological and historical background of the writers treated. The peculiar philosophical and cultural traditions of a given culture may be particularly important for an understanding of certain authors, and these are taken up in the introductory chapter and also in the discussion of those works to which this information is relevant. Beyond this, the books treat the specifically literary aspects of the author under discussion and attempt to explain the complexities of contemporary literature lucidly. The books are conceived as introductions to the authors covered, not as comprehensive analyses. They do not provide detailed summaries of plot because they are meant to be used in conjunction with the books they treat, not as a substitute for study of the original works. The purpose of the books is to provide information and judicious literary assessment of the major works in the most compact, readable form. It is our hope that the UMELL series will help increase knowledge and understanding of European and Latin American cultures and will serve to make the literature of those cultures more accessible.
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