The Late Mattia Pascal
By Luigi Pirandello
Introduction by Charles Simic
Translated by William Weaver
By Luigi Pirandello
Introduction by Charles Simic
Translated by William Weaver
Category: Literary Fiction
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$18.95
Nov 30, 2004 | ISBN 9781590171158
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Praise
Three writers of the twentieth century have given voice to—and leant their names to—our disquiet, our injuries, and our fear; at the same time, through the catharsis or measure of contemplation, which are among the revelations of art, they have helped us to live by tempering our anxiety and desperation; and I am using this term, tempering, in a musical sense…of striking a more pure, more cristalline, more vibrant note. These three writers are Pirandello, Kafka, and Borges.
— Leonardo Sciascia
Very funny, often hilariously so. It is also moving, disturbing, tragic. For Pirandello saw comedy residing in “the fundamental contradiction … between human aspiration and frailty,” a contradiction that induced “a certain perplexity between weeping and laughing.”
— The New York Times Book Review
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