Pirandello, Luigi - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Guidice, Gaspare. Pirandello: A Biography, translated by Alastair Hamilton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975, 221 p.
Abridged translation of the standard critical biography.
Criticism
Aste, Mario. "Two Short Stories of Pirandello: Their Sources and Their Relationship to the Essay Umorismo." Perspectives on Contemporary Literature 1 (1981): 64-72.
Traces two fables by Pirandello to several literary and folklore sources, and considers the fables in light of Pirandello's philosophy of humor as it is detailed in L'umorismo.
Brooks, Cleanth, and Warren, Robert Penn. "Luigi Pirandello: 'War.'" In their Understanding Fiction, Meredith Corporation, 1959, pp. 155-58.
Brooks and Warren analyze Pirandello's short story "War," which is also translated and reprinted here.
Jepson, Lisa. "Filling Space: The Trauma of Birth in Pirandello's Existential Novelle."...
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