Pirandello: three Generations Between Agrigento, Rome, and Paris

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BY: Teresa Di Fresco

I looked out the window onto Boulevard Saint-Germain and watched life pass by. I thought: this is the life we should be giving form to. Life as it is now. What nudes? What neoclassicism? Where are the bathers? I poured my coffee.

This is where people come together. I thought of the Classics: they always portrayed the life they were living – and the eternal myth…” These lines appear in Modern Life and the Eternal Myth by Fausto Pirandello, the acclaimed painter and son of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello, originally from Agrigento.

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