Luigi Pirandello (Agrigento 1867-Rome 1936), a prolific playwright, poet, essayist and novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, began writing stories in the late nineteenth century and continued to do so throughout his life. His stories were not only a starting point for his play (genre that innovated in stagecraft and, ignoring the canons of realism, preferred to freely use fantasy) with which not only share themes and tones, but also arguments and characters. In them the author found the privileged territory for exploration of the soul, the ideal extent that portray a situation or give life to a character from small to address individual tragedies to historical and social crisis.