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Between 1901 and 1933 the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded 31 times. Italy was honoured twice,* playwrights seven times.* Each of these categories was upped one day last week when the Swedish Academy singled out Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello to receive $41,318 of the late, dynamite-making Alfred Bernhard Nobel's money and the distinction of being Literary...
...like to strike a delicate balance between diplomacy and recognition of literary merit. Once it decided that Italy was due for an award, the Nobel Prize Committee was of necessity limited in its choice to four men: Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, Estheticist Benedetto Croce, Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, Playwright Pirandello. Drama lovers the world over were highly pleased at the final selection...
...Nobel Prize came at a happy moment for Luigi Pirandello. Last spring he did the libretto for an opera called The Legend of the Changeling Son which was loudly booed at its Roman premiere. Benito Mussolini had it recalled for "moral incongruity" while the well-trained Italian Press chorused "un-Fascist...
None of Playwright Pirandello's work is calculated to arouse mass appreciation. When his Six Characters in Search of an Author was presented in Manhattan in 1922, the management served notice that the drama was "not for morons." But average playgoers did not find Six Characters altogether incomprehensible. A father, mother, stepdaughter and son appear on a bare stage where some actors are about to rehearse a play, insist on working out their destinies as they were conceived in the mind of a playwright who did not get around to setting them down on paper...
...Communist literary criticism. For the rest, the Hoot is conventional and mild. Two undergraduates have collaborated on a dull catalogue of duller New Haven, and Mr. Charles Seymour writes with pale whimsy on artistry in dining. But it remains for the three reviwers to smother Mac-Leish and Pirandello with truffles of a more spiritual kind. Mr. Winter's long hosauna on Pirandelle in particular, is a jewel, a jewel of the genre ennoyuer bristling with irritating and inaccurate generalities. Mr. Winer may have made a long study of Romance Literature, as the editor insists, but it has yielded...