Six Characters in Search of an Author

PRESENTED HEREfor the first time together, and many for the first time in English, are the writings that formed the genesis of Six Characters in Search of an Author, along with a new translation of the theater masterpiece itself by Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese Witt. The interaction between characters demanding to “live” in writing and an author who rejects them would be developed in Pirandello’s 1911 story “The Tragedy of a Character.” In 1925, Pirandello conceived the idea of writing a novel about an author who rejects the characters who come to him begging to be put into a novel, and in a July 1917 letter to his son, he gives the novel a title: Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore: Romanzo da fare (Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Novel to Be Made). In this volume Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese Witt provide all these materials for a complete appreciation of this masterwork. New English translation. Introduction, notes, bibliography.— Google Books