Synopsis
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too his job is gone, his wife has remarried. Mattia Pascal's fate is to live on as the ghost of the man he was.
An explorer of identity and its mysteries, a connoisseur of black humor, Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters. The Late Mattia Pascal , here rendered into English by the outstanding translator William Weaver, offers an irresistible introduction to this great writer's work
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Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was born in Sicily into a prosperous middle-class family. After studying at Palermo, Rome and Bonn Universities, he began to write, but when his father went bankrupt and his wife became ill, he considered suicide. Instead, he wrote this, the real beginning of his literary career. Today he is known for Six Characters in Search of an Author, numerous novels and short stories.
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Text: English, Italian (translation)
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Hippocrene Books, New York, NY, 1987
ISBN 10: 0870523775
ISBN 13: 9780870523779
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Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus. NYC: Hippocrene, 1987. 1st edition thus (originally published in 1904), NF/NF. Book has some wear to spine ends. DJ has wear to spine ends, some color fade to spine. Includes intro and chronology by translator. Pascal runs away from an unhappy marriage, wins a small fortune in Monte Carlo and then reads in a newspaper that he is dead. What to do with the rest of your life? Nice copy, 251 pp. Seller Inventory # 004903