2 vite, un solo corpo!

I believe that among Pirandello's novels, "Il fu Mattia Pascal" is the best. "Uno, nessuno e centomila", although being the essence of Pirandellian thought, is much less narrative compared to this one. "Il fu Mattia Pascal", on the other hand, while dealing with important themes, is above all a beautiful story to read: ironic, engaging, paradoxical. A fantastic story that fascinated me when in the classic reading of the 20th century there was nothing so engaging. I found it particularly interesting. The story is never boring. It doesn't just tell but goes inside the protagonist's self, digs inside him and his personalities... A recommended book but not for a light reading. One has to pay attention and this is one of the characteristics that makes it really beautiful. From here, from this story that inspires a deep self-awareness, rebellion, the clash with the world and society that would like to force us to play the game, while we feel pushed towards freedom, to live according to our "content" and not according to the "form" that others impose on us. Such is the situation that Pirandello presents to us for the first time in his novel.

“Who are you, after all?” This simple question holds a profound mystery. It makes us stop and ponder the essence of our identity. Are we defined by our names, occupations, or the relationships we have? Or is there something more fundamental that lies within us?

Our identity is a complex tapestry woven from various threads. It includes our values, beliefs, dreams, and experiences. Each person has a unique story to tell, and this story shapes who they are. We may change and evolve over time, but there is always a core that remains constant.

Sometimes, we may struggle to answer this question. We may feel lost or confused about who we are and where we belong. But it is through self-reflection and exploration that we can begin to uncover the truth. We can look within ourselves, listen to our hearts, and embrace the person we are meant to be.

So, the next time someone asks you, “Who are you, after all?” take a moment to think. And remember, your answer is a reflection of the beautiful and unique individual that you are.

For a long time, I have marked for myself to read "Mateo Falcone's Holiday". Since it can only be obtained in Hebrew in specialized bookstores, I was happy when I came across a copy that was thrown onto the book shelf for sale in the local library. The loss of the library and my gain, since it is a wonderful book.

It is an old-fashioned novel (1904), a novel that centers on the examination of an idea through an extraordinary plot. The theme is the possibility of the existence of a human subject detached from relationships and social contexts. Pirandello examines the theme through the creation of artificial extreme situations, a deus ex machina, where the hero, in his attempts to solve and deal with them, is misled by a clever network of plot around him.

Mateo Falcone is an ordinary person. In the first part of the story, one chapter of his life is described as it progresses and deteriorates gradually. He is not an extreme type and is able to see two sides to every problem, but his gentle, peaceful and naive nature, which refrains from conflicts, stands in his way. He manages to overcome every obstacle within a certain range, but every action of his only leads him into new problems. He reaches the lowest point in his simple life - a kind of bourgeois slump, from which he feels he has no ability to rise above and break free.

After the author has entangled him in such a life, Pirandello surprises and, through two dramatic and unlikely events, he pulls Mateo Falcone, who is wallowing in the mud, out of all his troubles. Now, Mateo, the lucky one, stands before a choice, to return to his ordinary life or to open up to new lives, to get a second chance. He chooses the latter option and decides to try to live a life free of worries, to try and not fall into any pit this time. But are such lives possible?

Thus he muses on page 81: "And what would I have been if not a man alone in my heart? Alone, wandering, which asked and was even forced to exist, yet within the realm of reality. In being alive beside the lives of others and observing them attentively, I saw the countless cords, and also saw in it many times the life-threads that were severed. Could I now return and reattach them, the threads to be tied to reality? Who knows where they would lead me."

I will not reveal how things develop so as not to spoil your future reading. It is a humanistic and philosophical book, yet also full of twists and turns and very enjoyable to read.

I really love reading this book, which I haven't read in thousands of others. I really like the mind, the plots, and the thoughts that Nobel Prize-winning Italian writer Pirandello gives when reading. It leads people to amazing inquiries.

Did Mattia Pascal really live or not? A book that has been published before with his name.

Losing his family at a young age, losing the money in his hand, and the death of his mother and daughter whom he loved very much at the same time shook him a lot.

One day, when he returns from a journey, he reads the news of his own death. What follows is a very astonishing and extremely thought-provoking plot.

I really want you to get to know the author. The line between life and death. I recommend this book, which also contains philosophical elements with the personal journey of an ordinary person. It offers a pleasant literary experience.

The part presented by the author as a response to the criticisms was very enjoyable.

I looked around. Then my eyes fixed on the shadow of my body, and I remained for a while contemplating it. Finally, I angrily raised a foot over it. But no, I couldn't step on it, my shadow.

Who was more of a shadow between the two of us? Me or it?

Two shadows!

There on the ground; and anyone could pass over them: crush my head, crush my heart: and I, silent, the silent shadow. The shadow of a dead man, that's my life...

This is an absolute masterpiece that speaks of a man with an unbearable life to whom the possibility of being free and starting over opens up, without realizing that he would begin to live again in the guise of a ghost without a past and a future. A freedom that little by little will start to have increasingly narrower boundaries until it becomes a prison.

Man's perception of good and evil undergoes a significant transformation when he suffers. As the author keenly observes, in such a state, man constructs a personal concept of what is good and what is evil.

"I could discover for myself that, when he suffers, man forms a private idea of good and evil. I mean, of the good that others should do to him, which he demands as a right, as if he were entitled to some compensation for his sufferings; and the evil that he can do to others, as if his sufferings, at the same time, permitted him anything. And if the others are not good to him, if they neglect their duty; he considers them guilty; whereas any evil he does to them, he easily excuses, as if it were his prerogative." (154)

This self-centered view is quite remarkable. When a person endures pain and hardship, he expects others to act in a certain way towards him, believing that it is their obligation. He feels that he has a right to this goodness and may even demand it as compensation for his suffering. On the other hand, when it comes to his own actions towards others, he seems to give himself a pass. Any evil or wrong he does is easily rationalized or excused, almost as if it is his privilege to do so because of his own misfortunes. This duality in perception reveals the complex and often flawed nature of human thinking when it comes to morality and ethics in the face of suffering.

\\n  Pars destruens\\n

Mattia Pascal had a carefree and lively youth. However, he was later cheated and reduced to poverty by a dishonest administrator. Out of revenge, he decided to seduce the administrator's daughter and was then forced to marry her. In doing so, Mattia unknowingly built his own cage: an unhappy marriage and a dissatisfying job as a librarian in the squalid, small library of the Ligurian town where he lives, abandoned by everyone except the rats. Mattia is the typical Pirandellian hero: the small bourgeois trapped, squeezed between an oppressive family and a frustrating job, with the mobility of life precluded. His exasperating condition drives him to attempt escape. By a unexpected stroke of luck, Mattia suddenly finds himself out of the cage. First, he wins a large sum of money at the game, which guarantees his independence. Then, he is mistakenly identified in the corpse of a man who drowned.
At this point, our hero could freely immerse himself in the flow of life. Instead, he makes a fatal mistake: he creates a new identity, Adriano Meis, with an invented story and personality, because he is too attached to the common conception of the person to be able to free himself from it. Mattia deludes himself into thinking he is free, but the price of such freedom is to become a "foreigner of life": he cannot form new bonds, work, own property, or integrate into society. He is accompanied by a sense of emptiness, precariousness, solitude, and alienation. In other words, Mattia finds himself desiring everything that the old trap guaranteed him. The new form, even more false, restrictive, and limiting than the first, reveals to him all the inconsistency of the self.
When he falls in love with Adriana, this condemnation to exclusion from social life - because he cannot marry her regularly - becomes so unbearable that it drives him to recover his original identity. He thus fakes a suicide and returns home. However, here he is greeted with an unpleasant surprise: his wife, believing herself to be a widow, has remarried and had a daughter. Mattia cannot resume the old form, and if he tried to give himself another one, he would fall back into the same drama with no way out as Adriano Meis. Consequently, he is condemned to have none, to always be what he could not bear before: a "foreigner of life", a detached observer of human existence. He resumes working in the library and devotes himself to writing his memoirs, which constitute the novel itself, and tries to understand the meaning of this bitter adventure: Mattia has discovered that he is no one, that personal identity does not exist and is only an illusory and precarious social construction. Vitangelo Moscarda - the protagonist of a subsequent Pirandello novel, Uno, nessuno e centomila - reaches the next, even more terrible and destabilizing step: he deliberately renounces his own identity and abandons himself to the free flow of life, identifying with the wind, the trees, the clouds. Vitangelo believed he was "one", but then discovers that he is actually "one hundred thousand", that is, a different person depending on who observes and judges him each time. Consequently, he realizes that he is "no one", precisely because dozens, hundreds, thousands of different Vitangelo Moscarda live in the minds of others. Mattia stops at the pars destruens of the process of consciousness of the inconsistency of the self. Significantly, he states: "I am the former Mattia Pascal." The hero cannot completely renounce his own name, the symbol of identity, as Vitangelo will do, but he puts that "former" in front of it, like a "minus" sign that indicates the negation of identity, although no alternative solution has yet been proposed.

Enjoyable, if not exceptional.

Pirandello is truly witty and amusing. His words have a charm that keeps the reader engaged from start to finish. Even when the book transitions into its more overtly philosophical sections, it remains a pleasure to peruse.

However, it must be noted that the work is somewhat dated. This is not so much in terms of its content, which still holds relevance today, but rather in its impetus. The driving force behind the story may not resonate as strongly with modern readers as it did with those of Pirandello's time.

Nevertheless, this does not completely detract from the overall reading experience. It is still a dark but enjoyable meditation on identity and faith/fulness. While it may not be a perfect masterpiece, it is definitely worth reading for those interested in exploring these profound themes.

In conclusion, Pirandello's work offers a unique blend of entertainment and philosophical reflection that is sure to leave a lasting impression on the reader.

Ma aveva un cuore, quell'ombra. Tuttavia, it was a heart that was unable to love. It seemed as if the very essence of love had been drained from it, leaving only a hollow shell. And yet, nonostante this lack of love, that shadow had denari. Wealth, it had in abundance, but it was a wealth that was constantly at risk. For each and every one around it had the potential to rubarglieli, to steal away what it had so painstakingly amassed. But perhaps most curiously, that shadow also aveva una testa. It was a head that was capable of thought and comprehension, and yet it was the head of an ombra, not the ombra of a head. It was as if the shadow's very being was a contradiction, a strange combination of qualities that defied easy understanding.

I cannot deny that reading Pirandello is one of the most enjoyable things I have ever done in my life. That pleasure, mixed with the delight of savoring refined literature, literature that discusses very important life issues such as belonging and identity, and also discusses social problems that are present in every household and every society, no matter how different from one another. That universal spirit and the black comedy are what distinguish the great Pirandello.

Matia Pascal faces his life with all the problems it contains and finds himself, against his will, dead in his first death, which opens the doors to freedom for him to tell a new life, far away from his previous life, a life he draws himself. So, is it possible for a person to separate from himself!? Is it possible to live the life that he wants alone!?! Can he bear all those changes that he aspired to!?!

Those are some of the crucial questions that Pirandello poses to make us reflect on ourselves in that deep philosophical meditation.

It is a really wonderful philosophical novel.

Don't let your life pass by without going through it

Mattias Pascal could no longer bear it.

When he received 500 liras from his brother, he left without a destination and ended up going to Monte Carlo, Monaco, leaving behind his mother-in-law and wife. He had several reasons for making this decision. He had become an orphan at the age of 4 when his father passed away. Recently, his mother had also died. He and his family had been robbed for several years by a gentleman who was responsible for taking care of the family business, and now he was practically poor, with creditors demanding payment. His twin daughters had died, his mother-in-law was unbearable, and he was now working in a library, earning a pittance.

In his escape, he used the 500 liras he received and went to the gaming table, managing to win 85,000 liras. With this fortune in hand, he thought about returning home. However, while flipping through a newspaper, he discovered that someone had committed suicide in his city, and that someone was him! They had confused him with an unknown person who had killed himself, and worse, he was recognized as Mattia by his own mother-in-law and wife! This was the first death of Mattia Pascal.

Faced with this peculiar situation, knowing that he was dead, Mattia Pascal was overjoyed. Now he was free and had also gotten rid of his mother-in-law, wife, creditors, and the humiliating afflictions of his first life once and for all. However, his freedom was an illusion. He had to live with the lie and loneliness because he was afraid of being discovered. Many times he would talk to a canary that was in the corridor of his hotel.

After wandering for a long time, lost in the new and unlimited freedom, after wandering for two years, like a shadow, with this illusion of life beyond death, he found himself compelled, forced, dragged into a new life, and then transformed into a new man: Adriano Meis. Pretending to be dead is not a good profession.

With this new identity, Mattia Pascal departs for Rome and stays in a room in the house of a family where he meets Adriana. There, Mattia Pascal will die for the second time.

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