The Late Mattia Pascal
Pirandello, Luigi
Weaver, William
Simic, Charles (INT)
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BOOK 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 lifeonly 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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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1590171152
ISBN(13-digit): 9781590171158
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 853/.912
Library of Congress: 2004017966
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 252
Paper Weight (lb): .62 lb
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