Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

• Release date: May 1, 1998
• Series: Signet Classics

<b>Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello was one of the most original and powerful dramatists of his time-the playwright <i>par excellence</i> of the conflict between illusion and reality. His plays dramatize with force and eloquence the loneliness and isolation of the individual both from society and from himself.</b><br>  <br> In <i>Six Characters in Search of an Author</i>, his greatest work, these themes are played out with characteristic brilliance. First performed in 1921, the play concerns six living characters-family members embroiled in their own human drama-who come to a theater and demand that the manager and his actors stage their life story. Filled with both humor and despair, <i>Six Characters in Search of an Author</i> is Pirandello's most extraordinary achievement-as it explores the fundamentally absurd and tragic nature of the human condition.<br>  <br> <b>This Signet Classic edition includes an introduction by Eric Bentley, the widely acclaimed writer, translator, and international theater authority.</b>