The Late Mattia Pascal (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, European Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Luigi Pirandello
- First Published: 1904
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: Italy
- Principal Characters: Mattia Pascal, Roberto Pascal, Romilda Pescatore, Malagna, Adriana
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Suicide, Twentieth century, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Pregnancy, Adultery, Illegitimacy, Theft, Italy or Italians
- Locales: Italy
The Story:
As boys, Mattia Pascal and his brother Roberto lived an easy life with their wealthy widowed mother. While the boys were growing up, however, the fortune their merchant father had left them was gradually acquired by a dishonest man named Malagna, to whom the mother confided all of her business affairs. One by one the farms and city property belonging to the Pascals were mortgaged and then sold. Everyone except the widow Pascal realized how dishonest Malagna was. Her confidence in her agent enabled him to rob her of everything over a period of many years.
When...
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