{"product_id":"the-late-mattia-pascal","title":"The Late Mattia Pascal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Luigi Pirandello\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by New York Review of Books, 2004-11-30\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMattia 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137456783529,"sku":"PHBK-9781590171158","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/4245923482754.jpg?v=1780326473","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/the-late-mattia-pascal","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}