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One, None and a Hundred Thousand

One, None and a Hundred Thousand

Pirandello, Luigi
Putnam, Samuel

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Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1684221080
ISBN13: 9781684221080
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: May 15 2017
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

2017 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the ...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life.... Vitangelo, the protagonist, discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, and everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the image of Vitangelo that he himself has constructed and believes himself to be. The reader is immediately immersed in a cruel game of confusing projections, mirroring the reality of social existence itself, which imperiously dictate their rules. As a result, the first, ironic awareness of Vitangelo consists in the knowledge of that which he definitely is not; the preliminary operation must therefore consist in the spiteful destruction of all of these fictitious masks.

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