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OCLC. 224039533. One, No One and One Hundred Thousand ( Italian: Uno, nessuno e centomila [ˈuːno nesˈsuːno e tˌtʃɛntoˈmiːla]) is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. It is Pirandello's last novel; his son later said that it took "more than 15 years" to write. [1] In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the ...
- Luigi Pirandello
- 1926
Feb 22, 2019 · The remark by the book’s protagonist is written as if it introduces a brief philosophical digression, but it could just as well serve as an epigraph for the entire novel. Because compared even to Pirandello’s allegorical earlier fictions, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand reads more like an essay in metaphysics than a plot-driven narrative.
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August 30, 2022. Luigi Pirandello (1867 - 1936) – Nobel Prize winning Italian playwright, novelist, poet and short story writer, perhaps best known for such outstanding plays as Six Characters in Search of an Author.One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand is so well-constructed, each section flowing smoothly into the next, it’s as if the ...
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- Luigi Pirandello
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- “No name. No memory today of yesterday’s name; of today’s name, tomorrow. If the name is the thing; if a name in us is the concept of every thing placed outside of us; and without a name you don’t have the concept, and the thing remains in us as if blind, indistinct and undefined: well then, let each carve this name that I bore among men, a funeral epigraph, on the brow of that image in which I appeared to him, and then leave it in peace, and let there be no more talk about it.
- “The capacity for deluding ourselves that today's reality is the only true one, on the one hand, sustains us, but on the other, it plunges us into an endless void, because today's reality is destined to prove delusion for us tomorrow; and life doesn't conclude.
- “The idea that others saw in me one that was not the I whom I knew, one whom they alone could know, as they looked at me from without, with eyes that were not my own, eyes that conferred upon me an aspect destined to remain always foreign to me, although it was one that was in me, one that was my own to them (a "mine," that is to say, that was not for me!)—
- “The unfortunate part is that you, my dear friend, will never know, and I shall never be able to tell you, how what you say to me is translated inside me.
41. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the " [B]itterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life." Vitangelo, the protagonist, discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his. wife poses to him that everyone he knows and ...
Sep 19, 2018 · Walking along so serious . . . Excerpted from One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand, by Luigi Pirandello, translated by William Weaver. Published by Spurl Editions on October 22, 2018. About the Authors: Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. His best-known works include the novel The Late ...
Sep 23, 2018 · Put it this way: One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand is Pirandellian." - Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers.
