The Late Mattia Pascal (Italian: Il fu Mattia Pascal [il ˈfu mmatˈtiːa paˈskal]) is a 1904 novel by Luigi Pirandello. It is one of his best-known works and was his first major treatment of the theme of the mask.[1]
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The Question and Answer section for The Late Mattia Pascal is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Let's look at it from a different perspective. In Mattia's character, we have a man who by chance is allowed to pick up, leave everything he knows and start over. He's miserable in his life.......... he has an unhappy marriage, his...
He is the novel's chracter that attempts to convince Mattia that there are no limits to consciousness and that any conceived boundaries are in fact imaginary.
The novel may contain biographical elements, but all in all the plot, well constructed as it is is more a vision of Pirandello's philosophical outlook than anything else. It isn't meant to be an autobiography.
