Abstract
EL TEATRO EN SOLEDAD, written in 1911 by Ram6n G6mez de la Sera, and Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, written about ten years later by Luigi Pirandello, are strikingly similar in many significant ways. Coincidence cannot be the explanation, and it is extremely unlikely that Pirandello knew about Ramon's play,1 which was published in an obscure Spanish journal.2 My search for an explanation has led to Paris during the Banquet Years,3 and especially to the cubist school of painting. In the following pages, after discussing the close kinship which exists between the two playwrights, I shall attempt to show Ramon's relationship to cubism, and to demonstrate how he transposed cubist inspiration into the language of the theater in El teatro en soledad. I shall then present some cubist interpretations of Pirandello's play which suggest the conclusion that the two distinguished writers, working independently, responded in a similar way to the pulse of the age as reflected by the plastic arts. A number of Ram6n's commentators have called attention to the
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