The late Mattia Pascal
Original title: Il fu Mattia Pascal
Translated by William Weaver earliest edition we have, 1904 New York Review Books, 2005 paperback 252 pages
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English: The novel is about Mattia Pascal, who leaves home after one of the usual quarrels with his wife Romilda, and arrives in Monaco, where he wins thousands of pounds. So much money and a news story that he reads -announcing his death ( but it is the corpse of a desperate man who killed himself by jumping into a well)- suggests him to simulate its death and to start a new life. Mattia renamed Adriano Meis went to...
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