The Late Mattia Pascal Author:Luigi Pirandello, William Weaver Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. He realizes he has a chance to start over, and he moves to a new city and adopts a new name, only to find this second life as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he knew, it's too late: his j... more »ob is gone, and his wife has a new husband. Mattia Pascal's fate is to live on as the ghost of the man he was.« less