Author: Luigi Pirandello, C K Scott-Moncrieff, Book Depository.
Title: Shoot!: the notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, cinematograph operator
Description: [S.l.]: Dodopress, [post 2006]., [post 2006]. 239 p. Paperback. Luigi Pirandello was born of rich, middle-class parents in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, on 28 June 1867. As a young man he studied at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn, where he gained his doctorate in 1891. His first published work, Mal giocondo (1889), was a collection of poems. It was followed by other volumes of poems, critical essays, novels, short stories, and over forty plays. In 1894 he married Antoinetta Portulano, the daughter of his father's business associate. Financial disaster and a severe illness brought on by the birth of their third child drove his wife to a hysterical form of insanity. Only in 1918, when her presence in the family constituted a real threat to their daughter's safety did Pirandello agree to have his wife committed to an asylum. The enormous emotional strain he felt at this time is reflected in the intense pessimism found in his work. Pirandello's first real success in the theatre came about in 1921 when Six Characters in Search of an Author Als nieuw.
Keywords: 9781406574463
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Title: Shoot!: the notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, cinematograph operator
Description: [S.l.]: Dodopress, [post 2006]., [post 2006]. 239 p. Paperback. Luigi Pirandello was born of rich, middle-class parents in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, on 28 June 1867. As a young man he studied at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn, where he gained his doctorate in 1891. His first published work, Mal giocondo (1889), was a collection of poems. It was followed by other volumes of poems, critical essays, novels, short stories, and over forty plays. In 1894 he married Antoinetta Portulano, the daughter of his father's business associate. Financial disaster and a severe illness brought on by the birth of their third child drove his wife to a hysterical form of insanity. Only in 1918, when her presence in the family constituted a real threat to their daughter's safety did Pirandello agree to have his wife committed to an asylum. The enormous emotional strain he felt at this time is reflected in the intense pessimism found in his work. Pirandello's first real success in the theatre came about in 1921 when Six Characters in Search of an Author Als nieuw.
Keywords: 9781406574463
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Kantlijn
- Book number: 72855
- Book number: 72855
See more books from our catalog: Literatuur