In a Few Words. The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello – Vol. 3

Getting passionate about the great classics of literature… even before reading them!

“I don’t like books.” This is what (the late) Mattia Pascal says at the beginning of this story, making it clear who he’s talking to. To those who may not have discovered Pirandello yet or who remember him vaguely from school. Yet, in this comedy, the protagonist is Fantozzi before Fantozzi: a trickster who gets fooled. Someone who impregnates two women, tries to marry two and a half of them, but can’t get loved by any. A “loser” to whom everything goes wrong. And yet, he has the courage to make fun of himself, making the reader laugh.

• A series of simple and accessible books — the perfect chance to fall in love with the great works of world literature!
• A tragicomic protagonist who wins you over with his humanity. Amid misunderstandings, irony, and twists of fate, a story that makes you laugh and think, rediscovering the modern brilliance of Pirandello.

From the same series (In a Few Words): Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, adapted by Sarah Rossi; The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, adapted by Davide Morosinotto; The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, both adapted by Pierdomenico Baccalario, and The last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Guido Sgardoli.