Late Mattia Pascal

Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then providentially he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing 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. <p/>An explorer of identity and its mysteries a connoisseur of black humor Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters. <i>The Late Mattia Pascal</i> here rendered into English by the outstanding translator William Weaver offers an irresistible introduction to this great writer's work