Six Characters In Search Of An Author - Softcover

Pirandello, Luigi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1098957695 ISBN 13: 9781098957698

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

No apology is necessary for offering to American readers a play which critics, with singular unanimity, have called one of the most original productions seen on the modern stage. In less than a year's time, "Six Characters in Search of an Author" has won a distinguished place in the dramatic literature of the Western world, attracting audiences and engaging intellects far removed from the particular influences which made of it a season's sensation in Italy. Yet the word "original" is not enough, unless we embrace under that characterization qualities far richer than those normally credited to the "trick" play. The "Six Characters" is something more than an unusually ingenious variation of the "play within a play." It is something more than a new twist given to the "dream character" made familiar by the contemporary Italian grotesques. It is a dramatization of the artistic process itself, in relation to the problem of reality and unreality, which has engaged Pirandello in one way or another for more than twenty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1098957695
• ISBN 13: 9781098957698
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88