The Late Mattia Pascal

First published in 1904, "The Late Mattia Pascal" (Il fu Mattia Pascal) is Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello’s landmark novel that firmly established his renown as a master of psychological realism and existential humorism. The story follows Mattia Pascal, a man trapped in financial ruin and a suffocating, unhappy marriage in a small Italian town. After winning a windfall in Monte Carlo, he discovers on his journey home that his family has mistakenly identified a drowned corpse as his own. Thrilled by this accidental emancipation, Mattia sheds his past and adopts a new persona, "Adriano Meis," to build a clean slate. However, he soon encounters the tragicomic irony of absolute freedom: without a legal identity, he cannot marry, own property, or legally defend himself. Deeply philosophical and richly satirical, Pirandello explores themes of the social mask, illusion vs. reality, and the impossibility of escaping one's true self.

لأنه يقرأ واحدة من أمتع وأعمق الروايات الفلسفية الساخرة في تاريخ الأدب العالمي، والتي تطرح أسئلة جوهرية عن معنى الهوية، والحرية، والقيود التي يصنعها المجتمع حولنا.

For fans of classic European fiction, psychological novels, philosophical satire, existential literature, and readers who admire Nobel Prize-winning authors.