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About
the Organization
Established
by a group of professionals from the academic and business communities
in Massachusetts, the Lyceum exists to provide accurate accounts
of these contributions for the international, and particularly American
community. Its activities and purpose have been recognized with
support from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities,
the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy,
the Consulate General of Italy, and private contributors. It is
a non-profit tax-exempt organization.
Italian author,
who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 for his bold
and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage. Pirandello's
plays are often seen as forerunners for theatre of the absurd. Typical
for Pirandello's plays is to show how fiction mixes with reality
and how people see things in very different ways. Art was for Pirandello
the ultimate paradox, in which reality is at the same time true
and falso, and the unmasking of illusion often causes violence.
Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and
c. 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicillian dialect.
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