Picture by Anthony Bialek 1998 

"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart." 

"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels." 

          For more inspiring quotations by Luigi Pirandello look to:  
http://www.cyber-nation.com/victor...thors/quotes_pirandello_luigi.html 
 

          The Life of Luigi "The Penguin" Pirandello 

Born in Agriento, Sicily in 1867, Pirandello was born to a hard working family of prosperous sulfer miners.  Luigi first began by writing poetry as a creative outlet.  Soon after the arranged marriage to his father's business partener's daughter, Pirandello took up writing as a regular job.  Between his and his wife's family, the two had enough money to live comfortably.  However, all this later changed after floods wiped out many of his family's mines.  Pirandello soon fell into financial trouble and had to go to work as a teacher.  He began work at the Normal College for Women in Rome in 1897.  He held this teaching position until 1921.  It was after this time that Pirandello began to write some of his best known plays.  Pirandello is best known for the works that he created between the first and second World Wars.  Luigi Pirandello won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1934. 

                         Novels and Plays 

The Outcast 1901 
The Pleasures of Honesty 1917  
Right You Are If You Think So 1917 
Six Characters In Search of An Author 1921 
Henry IV 1922 
As You Desire Me 1930 
Better Think Twice 1933