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Title: The Late Mattia Pascal (Eridanos Library) by Luigi Pirandello, William Weaver ISBN: 0-941419-44-4 Publisher: Marsilio Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You can't escape from yourself
Comment: This book is very sad...it tells the story of a man who can't cope whit life's responsibilities and whit himself. A strange accident causes him to be believed dead, and he thinks he can assume a new identitiy and take on a new life. But he can't escape himself, and his new life shall be as unsatisfying and full of disillusions as the first. The clou of the book is the tragic melancholy of the seance...when he himself is evoked as his own spirit.Existentially spooky!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!!!
Comment: I would definetely recommend this novel. I enjoyed it very much. It helped me to come in contact with my innerself, and it made me think of things that i had never given any thought to before.
Rating: 5
Summary: The brain is the piano and the player the soul
Comment: Italian author, winner of the Novel Prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello is better known for his plays, forerunners of the theatre of the absurd. In this novel, the main character Mattia Pascal faces an economic downfall and a marriage without love. He decides to escape from this situation and in a stroke of luck wins a fortune in Monte Carlo. He takes a new identity, gains total freedom, shams death but the ghosts of his past existence, and the discovery of true love will spoil his new life.
The plot is neatly constructed and the dialogues between Mattia Pascal and some of the characters are enlightening, expressing Pirandello's philosophical outlook on life as well as reflecting biographical elements. The author is concerned with the ambiguity of truth and reality, the problem of identity and illusion. For him self-identity only exists in relation to others, as much as man is a social creature, unfortunately bound to social conventions. Man creates his own reality and lives in a world of illusions, always bound one way or the other to the past. The resulting paradox is that illusion may often become more real than reality!
Mattia Pascal is unable to cope with his total freedom which strucks him as being shapeless and aimless. Only the love he feels for Adriana will help him brake away from his suffocating mask. Upon returning to his former town he finds his wife has remarried and he is destined to become the shadow of a dead man.
Pirandello held a pessimistic outlook on life, believeing that his time was one of distress and darkeness (early 20th century), democracy was nothing more than tyranny disguised as freedom, and philosophical speculations nothing more than a product of our imagination.
"When death comes perpetual night will great us after the misty daylight of our illusion, or rather, we will be left to the mercy of Being, which will only have shattered the vain forms of our reasoning."
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Title: One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (Eridanos Library, No 18) by Luigi Pirandello, William Weaver ISBN: 0941419746 Publisher: Marsilio Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Eleven Short Stories/Undici Novelle: A Dual-Language Book by Luigi Pirandello, Stanley Appelbaum ISBN: 0486280918 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: I'm Not Scared by NICCOLO AMMANITI, JONATHAN HUNT ISBN: 1400075637 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga ISBN: 0520048504 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Fontamara (Italian texts) by Ignazio Silone ISBN: 0719006627 Publisher: Manchester University Press Pub. Date: 1977 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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