One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (Eridanos Library) - Hardcover

Pirandello, Luigi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0941419355 ISBN 13: 9780941419352

Publisher: Marsilio Pub, 1990

Synopsis

When Vitangelo Moscardo's wife tells him his nose is tilted to one side, he becomes obsessed with the fact that each person sees him differently, and with trying to make other people see him only as the person he wants them to see

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

From Publishers Weekly:

The great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author. Vitangelo Moscarda "loses his reality" when his wife cavalierly informs him that his nose tilts to the right; suddenly he realizes that "for others I was not what till now, privately, I had imagined myself to be," and that, consequently, his identity is evanescent, based purely on the shifting perceptions of those around him. Thus he is simultaneously without a self--"no one"--and the theater for myriad selves--"one hundred thousand." In a crazed search for an identity independent of others' preconceptions, Moscarda careens from one disaster to the next and finds his freedom even as he is declared insane. It is Pirandello's genius that a discussion of the fundamental human inability to communicate, of our essential solitariness, and of the inescapable restriction of our free will elicits such thoroughly sustained and earthy laughter.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Marsilio Pub
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0941419355
• ISBN 13: 9780941419352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160