Feu Mathias 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.

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. _The Late Mattia Pascal_ , here rendered into English by the

outstanding translator William Weaver, offers an irresistible introduction to

this great writer's work