Six Characters in Search of an Author

<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> <p/> 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. <p/> <b>This Signet Classic edition includes an introduction by Eric Bentley the widely acclaimed writer translator and international theater authority.</b>