Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Play (Timeless Classics) - Softcover

Pirandello, Luigi

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9781515060789: Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Play (Timeless Classics)

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Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

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Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage". Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is a stage comedy which laid the foundation for the Theater of the Absurd. A group of actors are preparing to rehearse for a Pirandello play. While starting the rehearsal, they are interrupted by the arrival of six characters. The leader of the characters, the father, informs the manager that they are looking for an author. He explains that the author who created them did not finish their story, and that they therefore are unrealized characters who have not been fully brought to life. The manager tries to throw them out of the theater, but becomes more intrigued when they start to describe their story.

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