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单词 Pirandellian
释义 Pirandellian, a.|pɪrənˈdɛlɪən|
[f. the name of the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) + -ian.]
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Pirandello or his style.
1927Observer 8 May 15/3 In a Pirandellian sense, he is enormously ‘real’. Just as we believe that Hamlet exists apart from the personality of the actor, so we know Pogo as if he were our dearest dumb friend.1929Sat. Rev. 1 June 746/1 How the dates fit I do not know, but Señor Unamuno seems to have drunk deep of Pirandellian philosophy.1930Times Lit. Suppl. 19 June 511/3 By this time one could almost predict from a single hint the course of a Pirandellian play.1933Ibid. 9 Mar. 164/4 The professor's appeal to the young man's good sense has in it that paradoxical justice that may well be called Pirandellian.1959Times 13 Mar. 16/6 Mr. Jupp..hits on the Pirandellian notion that the family should re-enact the history of their own lives in the hope of understanding it.1964Listener 30 Apr. 731/3 To get at the truth he questions the dramatist's ex-wife, and searches round for other people involved in the affair, playing, and allowing Mr Elliot to play, a Pirandellian game of masks and faces.1974N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 25/2 As a comedian he had trouble finding a persona, a Pirandellian problem.
Hence Piranˈdellism, the style or method of Pirandello; a characteristic example of this; Piranˈdellist, an advocate or follower of Pirandello.
1936Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Dec. 1048/3 The best and most striking side of Pirandello's art is lost, leaving behind the bare intellectual residue of so-called ‘Pirandellism’..exposed.1962Spectator 23 Mar. 370/2 The ending makes the play the second victim in twelve months of phoney and incompetent Pirandellism.1962Pirandellist [see Imagist 1].1964Eng. Stud. XLV. 328 Robinson grows away from his clay-coloured Irish plays and creates such Pirandellisms as Church Street.
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