The protagonist of a novel by this author hectors people with the line "Let's reason about this!" while trying to talk up a plan involving marrying his daughter first to a rich older man, then to her poor admirer. In a play by this man set on Christmas Eve, a man who has missed a train converses with a man who is dying of a facial epithelioma. This author of The Turn created a character who starts wearing sunglasses and adopts the name "Adriano Meis" after winning a small fortune at Monte Carlo and learning that he has been (*) declared dead. In a play by this author o
The protagonist of a novel by this author hectors people with the line "Let's reason about this!" while trying to talk up a plan involving marrying his daughter first to a rich older man, then to her poor admirer. In a play by this man set on Christmas Eve, a man who has missed a train converses with a man who is dying of a facial epithelioma. This author of The Turn created a character who starts wearing sunglasses and adopts the name "Adriano Meis" after winning a small fortune at Monte Carlo and learning that he has been (*) declared dead. In a play by this author of The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, coats and hats being hung on a rack attracts Madame Pace to the stage. That play by this author ends with the Boy shooting himself and the Little Girl drowning in a fountain, furthering the consternation of the Stage Manager. For 10 points, name this author of The Late Mattia Pascal and Six Characters in Search of an Author.
The protagonist of a novel by this author hectors people with the line
Luigi Pirandello