Overview
One of Luigi Pirandello's
most successful works. Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a
provincial town. He dissolved into a dreary dead-end job and a miserable
marriage. Accidentally, he discovers that he has been declared dead. He
adopts a new name, and a new course of life.
内容简介
《已故的帕斯卡尔》写乡村图书馆管理员马蒂亚·帕斯卡尔两次抛弃原先的身份,寻求另一个“自我”的经历。第一次他因同妻子争吵,愤然出走,人们认定他失足溺死,他被迫改名梅伊斯,开始戴上“假面”生活。但由于失去真实的“自我”,他在生活中处处感到被现实抛弃的痛苦,于是他制造了梅伊斯投河身亡的假象再度出逃,企图恢复真实的“自我”──帕斯卡尔的生活,但却再也无法回到原先的生活中去。
——转自亚马逊
About Luigi Pirandello
Born: Jun. 28, 1867
Died: Dec. 10, 1936
Italian
dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer who awarded the
1934 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the son of a sulfur merchant
and studied philology at Rome and at Bonn. His greatest achievement
is in his plays and wrote a large number of dramas which were
published between 1918 and 1935.
作者简介
皮兰德娄(1867~1936)意大利著名小说家、戏剧家、诗人。诺贝尔文学奖得主。一生创作了剧本四十多部、长篇小说七部、短篇小说三百多部、诗集四卷。皮兰德娄最初的文学创作从写诗开始,但他青年时代模仿卡尔杜奇写出的抒情诗不很成功。在20世纪的最初十年里,他主要写小说,小说创作使他蜚声文坛。1904年发表的第二部长篇小说《已故的帕斯卡尔》为他赢得了广泛的国际声誉1910年后,他转入戏剧创作,取得了卓越的成就。1934年,获诺贝尔文学奖。
——转自豆瓣网