Selected Poems of Luigi Pirandello

Author

Luigi Pirandello

Original Works

Offkey·Rhenish Elegies·Bagpipes·Playful Evil·Easter of Gaia

Translator

George Hochfield

Format

Collection / Anthology

Language

English

Year

2016

Publisher

Italica Press

Country

United States

Pages

256

ISBN

9781599103211

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LUIGI PIRANDELLO’S POETRY reflected modernism and relativism, the tension between faith and science and the place of the individual in a world devoid of coherence. He writes movingly of nature — silent, indifferent, unconscious, enduring — as the very antithesis of chaotic human activity . His stylemight seem traditional — more traditional than would be expected of an author whose work for theater surpassed mere innovation — and while his forms might be conservative, his ideas matched the spirit of his age . This edition presents for the first time in English translation a selection of work from the entire range of Pirandello’s poetic output. George Hochfield offers a sensitive and wise interpretation of that poetry . Dual-language Poetry. Introduction, bibliography, chronology, first-line indices, notes and appendices.— Google Books