Recent International Reception of Pirandello's Works and Thought

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Lisa Sarti (Borough of Manhattan CC (CUNY))

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Date of occurrence 2000-2018

Places

Italy (Location)

Genres and Modes

Drama
Novel

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Had Luigi Pirandello survived into the twenty-first century, he would have been flattered by the enduring global success of his work. In 2017, during the 150th anniversary of Pirandello’s birth, his legacy was celebrated across the world. Conferences were organized in Europe, Africa, Brazil, and North America, accompanied by films, keynote addresses, workshops, special editions of peer-reviewed journals, and scholarly publications. Spearheaded by the

Europäisches Pirandello Zentrum

in Munich, these global initiatives composed the

Pirandello International 2017

(http://pirandello.eu/international2017/).

Evident during this twelve-month series of tributes to Italy’s most prominent modernist was the urge not only to celebrate the vitality of Pirandello’s thought in contemporary

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Citation: Sarti, Lisa. "Recent International Reception of Pirandello's Works and Thought". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 October 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19485, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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