Luigi Pirandello

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SCHOLARS AND GYPSIES: An Autobiography By Walter Starkie
'"Scholars and Gypsies' is of enduring interest because of its vivid portrait of great personalities and beautiful places; because of its author's unusual ability to make himself at home equally with swarthy gypsy crones and world-renowned savants; because of the series of happy accidents that brought him to so many scenes just as history was being made there."—New York Times Book Review
"A compelling picture of an unusual man and eventful period."—The Booklist
"The choice quality of this volume arises from the conjunction of the events in the author's life and the beauty of his language. There is a pleasing variety ranging from precise exposition to dramatic dialogue One implication, beautiful and just, is to be noted in the titles of the two major divisions of this first volume of Starkie's autobiography: Adagio and Allegro. The implication is that the author sees his life as symphonic. The orchestration is superbly... Tovább

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SCHOLARS AND GYPSIES: An Autobiography By Walter Starkie
'"Scholars and Gypsies' is of enduring interest because of its vivid portrait of great personalities and beautiful places; because of its author's unusual ability to make himself at home equally with swarthy gypsy crones and world-renowned savants; because of the series of happy accidents that brought him to so many scenes just as history was being made there."—New York Times Book Review
"A compelling picture of an unusual man and eventful period."—The Booklist
"The choice quality of this volume arises from the conjunction of the events in the author's life and the beauty of his language. There is a pleasing variety ranging from precise exposition to dramatic dialogue One implication, beautiful and just, is to be noted in the titles of the two major divisions of this first volume of Starkie's autobiography: Adagio and Allegro. The implication is that the author sees his life as symphonic. The orchestration is superbly scored in 'Scholars and Gypsies.' "—Los Angeles Times
"This account of Stdrkie's first 25 years'is rich, vivid, candid, and as well written as one might have expected. An intriguing book which mokes the reader call for more."
—Library Journal
324 pages $5.95
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley, California 94720
Luigi í^irandello, 1867-1936
Third Revised Edition WALTER STARKIE
Although Pirandello died in 1936, his ploys continue to be an extraordinary force in contemporary theater and films. This book, one of the first in English to deal with the emergence of the great Italian playwright, and now expanded and brought up to date, remains the standard work. A penetrating survey and analysis of the plays, it is based both on the author's experience as a theater director and on his personal involvement and friendship with Pirandello.
In interpreting the personality of the playwright Professor Storkie has attempted to explain Pirandello's relationship to other writers of the modernistic dramatic movement known as the Tea-fro Groffesco and to show how, in the modern Italian theater, Pirandello led frontal assaults against the old-fashioned, bourgeois, well-made play, and especially against the voluptuous drama of the poet-condottiere Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Professor Starkie treats Pirandello from the Italian, the Sicilian, and the European points of view: as an Italian, a
Futurist, one of the intellectual chiefs of Italy between the two wars; as a Sicilian, a regionálist, successor to Verga and Capuana; as a European, author of those remarkable plays which have made Pi-randellian as expressive a word as Shavian.
This third edition contains a new introduction, a chapter on the effect Pirandello's work has had on the theater since his death, a revised epilogue, and an expanded bibliography.
Walter Starkie, C.M.G., C.B.E., Litt.D. is Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. One of the most versatile and cosmopolitan of men. Professor Starkie has been a Director of the Irish National (Abbey) Theatre; Professor of Spanish Studies and Lecturer in Italian Literature at Trinity College, Dublin; founder and first Director of the British Institute, Madrid; and British Council Representative in Spain during World War II. He is the author of more than thirteen books, including the first volume of his autobiography Scholars and Gypsies (University of California Press, 1963), a new and complete translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote (1965), The Road to Santiago (1957), and the well-known Raggle Toggle and Spanish Raggle-Tag-gle books on gypsies. Vissza