Six Characters in Search of an Author (Dover Thrift Editions)
 

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Luigi Pirandello

This 1921 intellectual comedy contrasts illusion with reality by introducing 6 individuals to a bare stage occupied by actors in rehearsal. Proclaiming themselves the incomplete creations of an author's imagination, the 6 demand dialog for the story of their lives. A classic dramatic exploration of the many faces of reality. Publisher's Note.

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what is truth? what is false? what is the thing we call reality? and what is the essence of theatre? this book gives very interesting and a bit sad answers.

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  • Fatemeh

    fatemeh said:

    "I think that life is a very sad piece of buffoonery; because we have in ourselves, without being able to know why, wherefore or whence, the need to deceive ourselves constantly by creating a reality (one for each and never the same for all), which from time to time is discovered to be vain and illusory. My art is full of bitter compassion for all those who deceive themselves; but this compassion can not fail to be followed by the ferocious derision of destiny which condemns man to deception" (Pirandello).
    Pirandello in his play; Six Characters in Search of an Author, shows that reality is relative, it is a combination of illusion and reality as it has been shown in this play. So what is played in the stage is an illusion and imaginary reality not real truth. There is a mask on the truth….a mask on TRUTH!

    posted Friday, November 30 2007
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