The unique farce of the Nobel Prize-winning (1934) Italian playwright, influenced by Ibsen, Strindberg, and German Expressionism, but remained Italian until the end, with a distinctive writing style akin to that of Spanish, Greek, and other Mediterranean writers.

The comic-tragic events follow one another, creating seemingly insurmountable deadlocks, while at the same time, the intense ethnographic elements create an atmosphere of mental elation.

On a second level, of course, the fundamental themes of Pirandello's work emerge here too, primarily the question of the subjectivity of truth.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]