Right You Are, If You Think You Are (Dover Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Pirandello, Luigi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486295761 ISBN 13: 9780486295763

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2016

Synopsis

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) explored such themes as the relativity of truth, the vanity and necessity of illusion, and the instability of human personality. In this famous play, an expressionistic parable set in a small Italian town in the early twentieth century, Pirandello skillfully dramatizes these issues.
The observer Laudisi derides the townspeople for their insistence on knowing the secrets of Mrs. Frola and her married daughter: Why does Mrs. Frola live alone and not with her daughter? Why do the two never visit each other? The answers to these questions lie at the heart of this play and at the center of Pirandello's artistic vision. Presented in an excellent new English translation, this inexpensive edition will delight students and lovers of modern drama.

About this title

About the Author:

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was a prolific author of modernist plays, fiction, and poetry. In 1934 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art."

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0486295761
• ISBN 13: 9780486295763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64