Six Characters in Search of an AuthorBy: Luigi Pirandello Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello was one of the most original and powerful dramatists of his timethe 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