The Late Mattia Pascal

Name: The Late Mattia Pascal
Author: Luigi Pirandello

by Luigi Pirandello

Novel of a man who fakes his death and assumes a new identity with unexpected consequences

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Luigi Pirandello

The Italian Nobel laureate who shattered theatrical illusion by making the audience question the boundary between art and reality. Six Characters in Search of an Author permanently altered how theater conceived of itself. His plays anticipate existentialism and the Theatre of the Absurd.

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