The Late Mattia Pascal
Luigi Pirandello
Read by Peter Tucker
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, allowing opportunities to slip away from him and living on the accumulated but dwindling resources of his family. As a young man he finds himself duped into poverty and an unhappy marriage made sadder by grief. He escapes on an adventure at Monte Carlo where he submits himself to Fortune which provides him with an extraordinary erasure of his old identity and the funds to maintain a new one. With the passage of a couple of years however he becomes horribly disillusioned with his situation and the isolation it brings. In a dramatic act he reassumes his old persona and returns to his home town, only to find himself written out of the script of his own life.
In this novel Pirandello explores, as in his other works, themes of identity and reality, laced with plenty of wit and irony. (Peter Tucker) (8 hr 41 min)
Chapters
Translator's note. Author's preface. | 22:29 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter I | 4:41 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter II | 7:47 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter III | 17:53 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter IV | 37:01 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter V | 35:28 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter VI | 30:22 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter VII | 26:51 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter VIII | 30:48 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter IX | 21:15 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter X | 27:23 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter XI | 41:15 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter XII | 31:32 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter XIII | 29:00 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter XIV | 21:15 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter XV | 30:00 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter XVI | 47:01 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter XVII | 24:32 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Chapter XVIII | 35:16 | Read by Peter Tucker |
Reviews
Great book! Best Narration!!
Reader, you nailed it! Pirandello will be proud of you if he could hear you reading his book in such eloquence from his gave.