Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

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Having to read a piece by an author who in fact expected his readers to think and forced them to draw their own conclusions gave me (I'm ashamed to admit) a novel and somewhat uneasy feeling. Once I realized that the main difficulty I encountered while reading Pirandello's play was the necessity to concentrate and to think about what was happening in the story, I started looking at Six Characters with a completely new attitude...
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Once I realized that the main difficulty I encountered while reading Pirandello's play was the necessity to concentrate and to think about what was happening in the story, I started looking at Six Characters with a completely new attitude. Between Bridget Jones's Diary and The Confessions of a Shopaholic, it is not often that one gets a chance to read something that would actually make one stop and think (sad but true)...
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