Six Plays : Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Caps and Bells, Right You Are (if You Think You Are

Resumen del libro

This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author - an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play - and Henry IV - a tragicomic tale of a man who falls from a horse and believes himself to be the eponymous Holy Roman Emperor. Preoccupied with the nature of truth and delusion, and treading dangerously on the borderline between sanity and madness, Pirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theatre inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.

Biografía del autor

Luigi Pirandello (Agrigento 1867-Roma 1936) está considerado como uno de los más grandes dramaturgos del siglo xx, además de un antecedente de las comedias absurdas de Ionesco y Beckett y del existencialismo sartriano. Asimismo, es autor de novelas, poesía y libros de relatos. Muchos de estos últimos, imprescindibles para comprender su particular visión del mundo y del ser humano, fueron convertidos por el propio Pirandello en obras teatrales. La publicación en 1921 de Seis personajes en busca de autor le hizo mundialmente conocido. En 1934 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura.