Vitangelo Moscarda, a man of comfortable means who has inherited a bank from his father, is told by his wife that his nose is crooked. This comment makes him realise that other people see him differently from the way he sees himself, and that he is, in fact, a hundred thousand different people to those around him. He decides to dismantle the different identities others have given him, shutting down the bank, giving away money and finally abandoning his name. Pirandello's last novel is a comic and unsettling story about identity.
Readers interested in philosophy of the self, and in modern literature of the early twentieth century, will find a witty book with a sad ending.
Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Literary Connoisseur. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1925
- Language
- EN
