Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) is one of Italy’s most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. Virginia Jewiss is a translator of Italian literature and cinema.
“The quality of the translation and the selection of well-known and
lesser-known stories makes this a welcome addition to earlier
collections available in English...There is something strikingly
modern about Pirandello's self-reflexivity...which speaks to our
times of endless self-making and remaking.”—Ann Hallamore Caesar,
Times Literary Supplement
Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award
in Prose, sponsored by The American Literary Translators
Association
"Virginia Jewiss opens up many of Pirandello's rich, humorous,
tragic, always engaging and surprising worlds in these trenchant
and entertaining stories."—Jonathan Galassi
“Pirandello is a master of the beguiling story that packs a
frightening punch."—Tim Parks, author of Italian Ways: On and Off
the Rails from Milan to Palermo
“The visionary dramatist Luigi Pirandello was also a masterful
spinner of short stories that are steeped in the salt sea, bitter
herbs, and ancient passions of his native Sicily. Virginia Jewiss
captures the biting edge of Pirandello’s irony with perfect
pitch.”—Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame
“The greatest short fiction begins with narrative and moves
effortlessly into archetype, achieving in a small compass an
epiphany about what is quintessentially human. Jewiss has rendered
Pirandello's epiphanies faithfully and triumphantly.”—Karl
Kirchwey, Boston University
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