Six Characters in Search of an Author
By (author) Luigi Pirandello
Publication date:
01 March 1998Length of book:
86 pagesPublisher
Ivan R. DeeISBN-13: 9780929587585
Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality, follows a group of characters who try to fashion their fife stories into acceptable drama. Mr. Brustein's new rendering is accessible, contemporary, and highly speakable while retaining the flavor of the Italian original.
Ingenious...a striking re-imagining of Six Characters that heightens the play's theatricality even as it grounds it in the mundane.... It keeps faith with Pirandello's case for the peculiarly irresistible power of illusion.