BOOK CLUB
Reading of this month
Uno, Nessuno e Centomila
by Luigi Pirandello
Special guest: Sean Wilsey, translator of the newest edition One, None, and a Hundred Grand, published by Arcipelago Books.
When purchasing directly from the publisher, archipelagobooks.org, IIC Book Club members receive a 40% discount on the cost of the book by using PIRANDELLO40 coupon code at check-out.
Luigi Pirandello’s final novel (published 1926) explores the fragmented nature of identity through main character, Vitangelo Moscarda, who suddenly realizes he is perceived as a different person by everyone he knows. This recognition leads him to question his own self and ultimately he seeks to dissolve his identity entirely. The story begins with a seemingly minor comment from his wife about his nose, triggering a crisis that reveals the gap between his self-perception and the “hundred thousand” versions of him that exist in others’ minds, making him “no one” in his own quest for a unified self. It’s a key work of modernism, delving into themes of perception, reality, and the self.
Marisa Castagno and Emanuele Capoano will be our guides throughout this journey.
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