The Late Mattia Pascal (Dedalus European Classics) - Softcover

Pirandello, Luigi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903517990 ISBN 13: 9781903517994

Publisher: Dedalus Limited, 2011

Synopsis

"Pascal, a landowner fallen on hard times and trapped in a miserable marriage, runs away from home and wins a lot of money at the gaming tables in Monte Carlo. Meanwhile a body has been found in the millrace of his village and it is assumed that Pascal has killed himself. Seizing what looks like a chance to create a new life, he travels to Rome under an assumed name and struggles to invent a different identity which he can inhabit. He fails, returns home, finds his wife has remarried and has to act out the role of being as it were a living ghost. All these tragic events are recounted with verve and wit and comes across clearly in Simborowski's spirited translation from the Italian."

Robert Nye in The Guardian

About this title

About the Author:

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)was born in Sicily in a prosperous middle-class family. After university he dedicated himself to literary pursuits and published, poetry, short stories, a novel and plays. The bankruptcy of his father in 1903 drastically altered his life. His wife became ill both mentally and physically and he contemplated committing suicide. It is against this background that he wrote The Late Mattia Pascal in 1904 which is seen as the beginning of all that is most interesting in his work. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1934.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dedalus Limited
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1903517990
• ISBN 13: 9781903517994
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 252