The Late Mattia Pascal

"Pascal, a landowner fallen on hard times and trapped in a miserable marriage, runs away from home and wins a lot of money at the gaming tables in Monte Carlo. Meanwhile a body has been found in the millrace of his village and it is assumed that Pascal has killed himself. Seizing what looks like a chance to create a new life, he travels to Rome under an assumed name and struggles to invent a different identity which he can inhabit. He fails, returns home, finds his wife has remarried and has to act out the role of being as it were a living ghost. All these tragic events are recounted with verve and wit and comes across clearly in Simborowski's spirited translation from the Italian."
Robert Nye in The Guardian

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 06/01/2011
ISBN: 9781903517994
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.80d