{"product_id":"the-late-mattia-pascal-9781590171158","title":"The Late Mattia Pascal","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Late Mattia Pascal\u003c\/i\u003e, here rendered into English by the outstanding translator William Weaver, offers an irresistible introduction to this great writer's work\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16160970\"\u003eLuigi Pirandello\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.18w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590171158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590171152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC064000\"\u003eAbsurdist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC060000\"\u003eHumorous | Black Humor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuigi Pirandello\u003c\/b\u003e (1867-1936) was born in Agrigento, Sicily, the son of a rich mining contractor. Having studied at the universities of Palermo and Rome and taken a degree in philology at Bonn, the young Pirandello turned to writing poetry and stories, achieving his first literary success in 1904 with his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Late Mattia Pascal. \u003c\/i\u003eDuring World War I, Pirandello began to write for the stage, winning an international following with plays such as \u003ci\u003eSix Characters in Search of an Author\u003c\/i\u003e (1921) and \u003ci\u003eHenryIV\u003c\/i\u003e (1922). In 1934, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pirandello was the author of novels, essays, stories, and more than fifty plays, as well as an influence on writers as different as Eugène Ionesco and T.S. Eliot. Commenting on his work in 1920 he wrote: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI think that life is a very sad piece of buffoonery; because we have in ourselves, without being able to know why, wherefore or whence, the need to deceive ourselves constantly by creating a reality (one for each and never the same for all), which from time to time is discovered to be vain and illusory.... My art is full of bitter compassion for all those who deceive themselves; but this compassion cannot fail to be followed by the ferocious derision of destiny which condemns man to deception. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Simic\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. \u003ci\u003eVoice at 3 A.M.\u003c\/i\u003e, his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems \u003ci\u003eMy Noiseless Entourage\u003c\/i\u003e came out in the spring of 2005. His new e-book is titled \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Poet Laureate\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Weaver\u003c\/b\u003e is celebrated for his numerous translations from the Italian, including Umberto Eco's \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e and novels and stories by Italo Calvino.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44715257725165,"sku":"9781590171158","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_89b1a103-2767-425d-bb5a-3366b53af3a0.jpg?v=1704121557","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-late-mattia-pascal-9781590171158","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}