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    A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "A Day Goes By"
    A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "A Day Goes By"
    A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "A Day Goes By"
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    A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "A Day Goes By"

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    A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "A Day Goes By," 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535816571
    A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "A Day Goes By"

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      A Study Guide for Luigi Pirandello's "A Day Goes By" - Gale

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      A Day Goes By

      Luigi Pirandello

      1936

      Introduction

      Luigi Pirandello's short story A Day Goes By (originally written in Italian as Una giornata) was first published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della sera (Evening Courier) on September 24, 1936, less than three months before Pirandello's death. This short, dream-like tale of a man deposited in a train station with no memory of his past deals with themes of identity and alienation. The main character attempts to rediscover his identity, only to find that in the process of doing so, his life has passed him by. The slippery concept of identity, and how it is defined, is a common theme in Pirandello's work, as is the nature of reality: how do we truly know what is real and what is not? Throughout his life, Pirandello struggled with his own sense of alienation from the rest of the world, and even from himself. In a short biography of Pirandello that prefaces Luigi Pirandello: Short Stories, Frederick May writes that Pirandello claimed he had no life outside his writing, and … like so many of his characters, he could sadly affirm that for himself he was nobody. Knowing of Pirandello's own estrangement, the story could be interpreted as the story of a man so detached from his own life that he has no memory of it (rather than the story of a man who has somehow lost his memories).

      A Day Goes By is one of over two hundred short stories Pirandello wrote in his lifetime. Because it is not one of his better-known stories, it is difficult to find in print. It is included in the 1987 collection, Luigi Pirandello: Short Stories, a Quartet Books publication, with an introduction by the translator, Frederick May.

      Author Biography

      The Italian author and playwright Pirandello was born on June 28, 1867, in Girgenti (now Agrigento), Sicily, the first son and second

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