Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters and influenced the work of many great Italian writers of the twentieth century, including Camilleri and Sciascia. The Late Mattia Pascal, a reflection on the nature of identity and what it is to be free, here rendered into English by the outstanding translator William Weaver, offers an irresistible introduction to this great writer’s work.
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realising 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.
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