The Instrument of Creation...
Saturday June 28, 2008
It's the dream of some: To live forever, to be remembered far after the last breath has ceased.
Luigi Pirandello was born on June 28, 1867. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." He wrote novels, plays and short stories. How does illusion relate to unreality?
In Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello wrote: "A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! And to be able to to live for ever you don't need to have extraordinary gifts or be able to do miracles. Who was Sancho Panza? Who was Prospero? But they will live for ever because - living seeds - they had the luck to find a fruitful soil, an imagination which knew how to grow them and feed them, so that they will live for ever."
Luigi Pirandello was born on June 28, 1867. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." He wrote novels, plays and short stories. How does illusion relate to unreality?
In Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello wrote: "A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! And to be able to to live for ever you don't need to have extraordinary gifts or be able to do miracles. Who was Sancho Panza? Who was Prospero? But they will live for ever because - living seeds - they had the luck to find a fruitful soil, an imagination which knew how to grow them and feed them, so that they will live for ever."
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