Il fu Mattia Pascal (Italian Edition)
Faced with this sudden opportunity to start afresh, he first wanders about Europe, and finally settles down in Rome with an assumed identity. His character develops in unexpected, even admirable, ways. Yet one admirable act brings the protagonist a crisis, followed by additional crises that lead him to conclude that continuing with his plans will entail only misery for those he loves, precisely because his entire life, including the precious liberty he thought he had gained from his past, is now a lie.
He ultimately decides to fake his own death and return to his original life. But even that proves difficult; his family and town have long since adjusted to his "death," and his own adjustment of character prompts him to have mercy on his now remarried wife. So the twice-dead Late Mattia Pascal reduces himself to a figure outside the mainstream of society, a walk-on part in his own life. Despite the bizarre and macabre plot, the book is written in a warmly humorous style. Mattia is, essentially, a comic character, and the novel at times becomes almost satirical.
Pirandello's concern with the nature of identity, which figures strongly in such plays as Six Characters in Search of an Author and Enrico IV , is also at the philosophical core of this novel. See all 10 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Il fu Mattia Pascal Italian Edition. Set up a giveaway. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. La coscienza di Zeno Italian Edition. There's a problem loading this menu right now.
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He was a self-made man justly born to be free. Yet, he died in solitude being caged in his own individuality; a man whose existence was in itself a nothingness. Thanking you for an ephemeral bliss -- Anonymous. Written in a biographical form it deals with the facet of personal identity and the calamitous dilemma of its mutability. The plot runs through familiarizing the reader with the fateful life of a young Italian man- Mattia Pascal, to whom happiness is a rare commodity. Troubled by a miserable marriage, penurious livelihood and utter condemnation of his survival; Mattia leaves his native land in search of a unsullied liberated self.
Compelled by his rebellious mind-set, he finds an opportunity in a miscalculation when a newspaper reports his fallacious death. Finally, an escape to a freer life and thus an alter-ego unchained to societal obligation is created.
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Adriano Meis was a specter of broken ties who would be distressed by the humanness of Mattia Pascal. Was Mattia legit in his actions of concealing the truth and using the passage to live an entirely different life? Is a specified identity essential to individual to acquire a civil status that may sometimes become burdensome? The manuscript undeniably rattles your grey cells and makes you ponder on the limits of unconsciously self-constructing a new identity without acquiring a legit civil status. Freedom is what everyone craves to escape the harsh conditions of misfortune.
But with limitless freedom comes the human aspect of excruciating seclusion and constraints of legitimacy. Death was seen as a liberating prospect by Mattia from his entire monetary and emotional burden. His newly altered appearance and name bestowed him contentment, until his past caught up overwhelming him with nostalgic reminiscences, thus gradually transmuting his new persona into a dense prison in itself.
In the end, whether it was Mattia or his alter-ego Adriano , they were merely trying to unmask a self-created phantom as neither both could entirely break away from from each other. Ora, io sono d'accordo in parte.
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Credo che sia una definizione che si potrebbe appioppare anche a questo romanzo pirandelliano. A me ha comunicato solo tanta, tantissima noia, e lo stile pesante e farraginoso non rendono piacevole la lettura.
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Ma, ecco, se uno va a vedersi lo stile e l'approfondimento psicologico, eh! Mi sembra di tornare al periodo in cui lessi "La coscienza di zeno". Tutti prendono lo sconosciuto morto per lui. Ma, a parer mio, il pratogonista nuota, anzi annega, nelle seghe mentali. Insomma, c'hai i soldi, fattela veramente questa nuova vita! Registra il tuo nuovo nome!
In generale ho trovato meglio scritto il romanzo di Svevo, ma alla fine sono gusti. Almeno, a differenza di Calvino, lui riesco a leggerlo. Non lo dico tanto per criticare. E non c'entra lo spessore psicologico. Semplicemente, ne "Il fu Mattia Pascal", a volte il sonno ha il sopravvento. Mar 29, Jim Fonseca rated it really liked it Shelves: He earns a pittance as the librarian in backwater Italian town.
He lives with screaming kids, a wife who has lost interest in him and a viscous mother-in-law who hates him. One day while out of town, he learns from newspapers that the decomposed body of a suicide victim down by the watermill in his home town was mistaken for him. He goes on a gambling spree and actually makes money and creates a new life for himself in a distant town. But living a second life is far from easy and the plot turns into a farcical soap opera or a real opera, since the work is translated from the Italian. The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in It kept my attention and I found the plot fast-paced and with a bit of a mystery to it.
Dec 05, Tyler Jones rated it really liked it Shelves: Even in so-called literary circles, the name of Luigi Pirandello is connected primarily with his innovative work as a playwright.