Recommendation: Six Characters in Search of an Author is an existential masterpiece, exploring the blurred lines between fiction and reality. It's an excellent read for anyone who enjoys plays that delve into human psychology and the nature of existence. The play's unique feature is the concept of the characters coming to life and demanding to be put on stage, blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality. Users would praise the play's thought-provoking and emotionally charged themes.

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello was one of the most original and powerful dramatists of his time - the playwright par excellence 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. In Six Characters in Search of an Author, 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 maneger of his actors stage their life story. Filled with both humor and despair, Six Characters in Search of an Author is Pirandello's most extraordinary achievement - as it explores the fundamentally absurd and tragic nature of the human condition. This new Signet Classic edition includes an introduction by Eric Bentley, the widely acclaimed writer, translator, and international theater authority.

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