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A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "War"
A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "War"
A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "War"
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A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "War"

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A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "War," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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Release dateJul 27, 2016
ISBN9781535842389
A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "War"

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    A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "War" - Gale

    11

    War

    Luigi Pirandello

    1918

    Introduction

    War is a short story by Italian writer Luigi Pirandello, one of the major figures in twentiethcentury European literature. He is known primarily for his plays, but he also wrote hundreds of short stories as well as novels. Pirandello wrote War in 1918, during the last year of World War I. The story is set in a railroad carriage in Italy. Several travelers are journeying from Rome and are joined at dawn by a man and his wife. The couple are on their way to visit their son, who is going off to war. The mother is unhappy because she thinks no one understands how she feels. A discussion ensues among the men, several of whom have sons and other relatives fighting in the war. They discuss who suffers the most in such situations. One traveler claims that young men are happy to die for their country and so their deaths should not be mourned, but a strange remark by the woman leads him to reveal his true feelings involuntarily.

    War was translated into English and appeared in a collection of Pirandello's short stories, A Character in Distress, published in England in 1938. The book was published in the United States the following year under the title The Medalsand Other Stories. This book is no longer in print, and War has not been reprinted since in any English-language collection of Pirandello's short stories. However, it is currently available in at least two anthologies: Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (2000), edited by Robert Di Yanni and published by McGraw-Hill, and From Idea to Essay: A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook, 12th edition (2009), edited by Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell and Anthony Winkler and published by Cengage Learning.

    Author Biography

    Renowned Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer Pirandello was born on June 28, 1867, in Girgenti, on the island of Sicily, a region of Italy. He was the son of Stefano and Caterina Ricci-Gramitto. His father was a prosperous businessman and expected his son to follow the same line of work, but Pirandello soon revealed a talent for academic study rather than business.

    Pirandello began his

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