![]() Pirandellos early writing and teaching at the Istituto Superiore di Magistero di Roma was sufficient to support himself, his wife, and his three children-supplemented by an allowance from his father and his wifes dowry. Instead, he spent his youth writing stories, and later excelled in literary studies. Born into a well-to-do Sicilian family, he seemed destined to follow his father into business as a sulfur merchant. Pirandello was no stranger to reinvention and loss of identity. Written by Nobel Laureate Luigi Pirandello over the course of 15 years, One, None, and One Hundred Thousand was a groundbreaking look at the nature of identity and the self. What follows is a series of experiments, meant to befuddle and confuse those around him and prove that he was not, in fact, who they believed him to be. nd out who I was, at least to those closest to me, acquaintances so-called, and to amuse myself by maliciously dposing the I that I was to them. And the people around him? They were not who he thought they were either. Moscarda grappled with this new knowledge: that he was not who he thought he was, nor who anyone else thought he was. ![]() And there were hundreds-no, thousands-of additional Moscardas in the minds of everyone who had met or heard of him. ![]() ![]() Book Synopsis After all, the Moscarda he believed himself to be was different when he was alone, or with his wife, his tenant, or his friends. About the Book Written by Nobel Laureate Luigi Pirandello over the course of 15 years, One, None, and One Hundred Thousand was a groundbreaking look at the nature of identity and the self. ![]()
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