六个寻找剧作家的角色 Six Characters in Search of an Author

基本信息

Author Luigi Pirandello, Eric Bentley

Format Paperback | 112 pages

Dimensions 116 x 175 x 8mm | 60g

Publication date 01 May 1998

Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Language English

ISBN10 0451526880

ISBN13 9780451526885

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

♦ 1934年获得诺贝尔奖的路易吉-皮兰德娄是他那个时代具原创性和影响力的戏剧家之一，是一位幻想与现实之间冲突的剧作家。他的戏剧有力而雄辩地表现了个人与社会和自身的孤独和隔绝。在他伟大的作品《六个寻找剧作家的角色》中，这些主题以特别的形式展现出来。该剧于1921年上演，讲述了六个活生生的人物卷入了他们自己的人类戏剧中的家庭成员，并来到剧院，要求经理和他的演员上演他们的人生故事，充满了幽默和绝望。这探讨了人类条件的根本荒谬性和悲剧性。

♦ 这个Signet经典版含有由广受赞誉的作家、翻译家和国际戏剧Eric Bentley撰写的序言。

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 manager and 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 Signet Classic edition includes an introduction by Eric Bentley, the widely acclaimed writer, translator, and international theater authority.

作者简介

路易吉-皮兰德娄于1867年6月28日出生在西西里岛的Girgenti，父母是富有的中产阶级。年轻时，他曾在巴勒莫大学、罗马大学和波恩大学学习，并于1891年获得博士学位。他的初期作品《Mal giocondo》（1889）是一部诗集。之后又出版了其他诗集、评论文章、小说、短篇小说和40多个剧本。

1894年，他与他父亲的生意伙伴的女儿安托瓦内塔-波图拉诺结婚。经济上的灾难和他们第三个孩子出生后带来的严重疾病，使他的妻子陷入了歇斯底里的精神错乱。直到1918年，当她在家里的存在对他们女儿的安全构成真正的威胁时，皮兰德娄才同意将他的妻子送入精神病院。他在这一时期感受到的巨大情感压力反映在他的作品中强烈的悲观主义。

1921年，《六个寻找剧作家的角色》的演出使皮兰德娄在戏剧界获得了真正的成功。第二年，《亨利四世》上演，证实了他作为一名剧作家的地位。在接下来的几年里，皮兰德娄在国外进行了各地旅行，开始了制作人的生涯，并于1925年在罗马成立了他的艺术剧院。1934年他被授予诺贝尔文学奖，1936年12月10日在罗马去世。

Luigi Pirandello was born of rich, middle-class parents in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, on 28 June 1867. As a young man he studied at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn, where he gained his doctorate in 1891. His first published work, Mal giocondo (1889), was a collection of poems. It was followed by other volumes of poems, critical essays, novels, short stories, and over forty plays. In 1894 he married Antoinetta Portulano, the daughter of his father's business associate. Financial disaster and a severe illness brought on by the birth of their third child drove his wife to a hysterical form of insanity. Only in 1918, when her presence in the family constituted a real threat to their daughter's safety did Pirandello agree to have his wife committed to an asylum. The enormous emotional strain he felt at this time is reflected in the intense pessimism found in his work. Pirandello's first real success in the theatre came about in 1921 when Six Characters in Search of an Author was performed. Henry IV followed the next year and confirmed his position as a playwright. In the following years Pirandello travelled abroad extensively. He embarked on a career as a producer and in 1925 founded his Art Theatre in Rome. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 and died in Rome on 10 December 1936.