[b:Six Characters in Search of an Author|741618|Six Characters in Search of an Author|Luigi Pirandello|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358967186s/741618.jpg|15468851] but funny.

Hilarious, in fact.

Not too sure about the final two chapters or the Codas, however. The codas seem a bit redundant and the final joke of the main narrative seems a bit gratuitous. I can see that the codas "close" a heap of characters and that they add an opportunity to belabour some points about what constitutes "good" and "bad" dramatic writing, but all of that seems as if it should be plainly implicit in the main work to anybody with wit enough to actually read it. "Plainly implicit" is a nice oxymoron, don't you think? Anyway - all the characters who get "closed" don't really need it, either as they are basically extras - which makes them expendable, right?