| Title | : | The Late Mattia Pascal |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Luigi Pirandello |
| Release | : | 2012-03-17 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 990355 |
| "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 |
