Her Husband
Luigi Pirandello
Her Husband
Luigi Pirandello
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“Pirandello’s fiction has been overshadowed in America by his epoch-making plays, and one of his seven extraordinary novels has never even been published in English. Till now, that is, thanks to excellent translators, Martha King and Mary Ann Frese Witt. American readers will have great fun with Her Husband.”—Eric Bentley
“[Pirandello’s] real interest seems to lie in exploring the relationship between femininity and creativity, an interest that takes his artistry far beyond his own time and his own prejudices to chart new territory. His intricate and subtle explorations of the mind of the woman writer, of the relations between creation and procreation, and the contradictions inherent in literature as art and literature as business, speak to the preoccupation of the twenty-first century as they did to the first years of the 1900s.”—from the Afterword
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), Italian dramatist, novelist, short story and essay writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. Pirandello shares the stage with Ibsen and Brecht as one of the most influential modern dramatists of the early twentieth century. A prolific writer, he began his literary career as a novelist and writer of short stories, the best known of which is the novel The Late Mattia Pascal, published in 1904. Pirandello’s plays (nearly forty of them) won him an international reputation, with Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) providing his most enduring contribution to modern European theater. Her Husband (1911) is Pirandello’s fifth novel.
Martha King is the translator of numerous books. Mary Ann Frese Witt is Professor of French and Italian at North Carolina State University.