Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Il Fu Mattia Pascal – Luigi Pirandello



One of those books that Italian students are forced to read (and hate) in their final year of high-school. Luckily I had left for Canada by then, and only read Il Fu Mattia Pascal well after the end of my Ph.D. I wouldn’t say that I loved it (nobody in his/her same mind could love this book), but I did definitely enjoy it more than what I expected.

Much of the book is set in the towns on the Italian Riviera where I used to go to when I was a kid, and I loved that. Despite the fact that, like pretty much every other Italian, I already knew the plot and at least a number of its twists, the book was still a nice read.

And call me romantic (something which I’m really not), but I like the fact that book goes full circle, and that the main character ends up feeling the call of his own hometown.

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