The late Mattia Pascal

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The late Mattia Pascal

Luigi Pirandello ; translated by William Weaver ; introduction by Charles Simic

(New York review books classics)

New York Review Books, c2005

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Il fu Mattia Pascal

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Fu Mattia Pascal

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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 late: 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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  • NCID
    BA89138839
  • ISBN
    • 9781590171158
  • LCCN
    2004017966
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ita
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 252 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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