The Late Mattia Pascal

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The Late Mattia Pascal is a novel by Luigi Pirandello that explores themes of identity and existential crisis through the story of a man who seizes the chance to start a new life after being mistakenly declared dead.

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instanceOf novel
adaptation film adaptations
author Luigi Pirandello NERFINISHED
centralConflict protagonist's struggle with his assumed new identity
countryOfOrigin Italy
firstPublicationForm serialized
genre existential fiction
modernist literature
novel
hasCharacter Mattia Pascal NERFINISHED
hasMotif double life
false identity
mistaken death
hasSubject personal freedom
social conventions
the impossibility of escaping oneself
hasTranslation The Late Mattia Pascal (English translation) NERFINISHED
influencedBy late 19th-century Italian society
literaryMovement Italian modernism
modernism
literarySignificance considered one of Luigi Pirandello's major novels
literaryTechnique metafictional elements
unreliable narration
mainCharacter Mattia Pascal NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective first-person narrative
notableFor innovative treatment of personal identity
use of irony and humor in existential themes
originalLanguage Italian
originalTitle Il fu Mattia Pascal NERFINISHED
partOf Luigi Pirandello's body of work
plotSummary Mattia Pascal is mistakenly declared dead and decides to assume a new identity and start a new life.
publicationYear 1904
publisher Italian publisher Treves (first book edition) NERFINISHED
setting Italy NERFINISHED
structure prose narrative
targetAudience adult readers
theme alienation
existential crisis
fate and chance
freedom and constraint
identity
social roles
the nature of self
timePeriodOfStory late 19th century to early 20th century
tone ironic
philosophical

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Luigi Pirandello notableWork The Late Mattia Pascal