If it's not already, this should be required reading in schools. The fact that you are not who others see you as, nor confined to the box you've created for yourself, is an important and timeless message.

Vitangelo Moscarda is the central character of this story. He is Italian, married and twenty-eight. He has no kids. Nobody disputes these facts. Everything else about his personality--his goals, motivations and manner of being—may be and is up for debate!The book is a novel but reads as a philosophical treatise. Its theme is who we really are. Are we most accurately how we view ourselves or how others view us? Can an accurate representation be drawn by any? A quick glance in a mirror shows one p...

Please....just because a famous author wrote it, this doesn't mean the book is a good one. The same concept repeated a thousand times: I kept on thinking "yes yes I understood what you mean, stop saying it again and again"Ma per piacere, una media di 4 stelle....lo stesso concetto ripetuto 40'000 volte. Bastavano 10 pagine per spiegarlo e bon, invece un intero libro inutile e noioso.

Luigi Pirandello (1867 - 1936) – Nobel Prize winning Italian playwright, novelist, poet and short story writer, perhaps best known for such outstanding plays as Six Characters in Search of an Author.One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand is so well-constructed, each section flowing smoothly into the next, it’s as if the author penned all 160 pages in a single, uninterrupted creative burst. Remarkably, it’s just the opposite: Luigi Pirandello worked on this short novel on and off over the course o...

“The capacity for deluding ourselves that today's reality is the only true one, on the one hand, sustains us, but on the other, it plunges us into an endless void, because today's reality is destined to prove delusion for us tomorrow; and life doesn't conclude. It can't conclude. Tomorrow if it concludes, it's finished.” Let me go way back, some 8 years or whereabouts in the past. A younger Mutasim Billah is in a classroom where his English teacher is giving a valuable lesson in creative writ

Uno, Nessuno e Centomila = One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Luigi PirandelloVitangelo Moscarda is a rich man. One day his wife tells him that her nose is crooked. This statement becomes an excuse for Moscarda to see himself in the mirror again and again and pay attention to know what he looks like from the point of view of others. He also doubts his own image and moral character.Vitangelo Moscarda discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone

They say comedy is one step away from tragedy. In this book, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Sure I laughed because there was a lot of farce in these pages. But the madness that takes hold has a real sadness happens as well.Vitangelo is twenty-eight, married and living off the inheritance of his father. Nothing to complain about. One day when his wife notes that his nose has a tilt to the right, he becomes obsessed about it. He asks his friends about his nose. They don’t think anything ab...

A book about being gripped with, indeed swept by, the idea of the gulf between the way you perceive yourself, the way(s) others see you, and (if that can be asserted anyhow), the way you truly, objectively are. Hence the one, one hundred thousand, and no one, respectively (if I got it right). After a long period during which the first-person protagonist is working out and getting his head around this notion, he reaches the conclusion that it is impossible, or rather, useless, to try to conform t...

First, I have to thank Eva at Spurl Editions for my copy of this book. I bought a copy many years ago, shelved it, and forgot about it. Now, after finally reading it, it's become a book that is so disturbing (and so well done) that it will probably never get out from underneath my skin. I loved every second of it.Just briefly, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand is a novel which, in the author's words, "deals with the disintegration of the personality. " It is a very dark read, in which a man

This is one of those books that blows you away. Why? Well, Mr. Pirandello's novel will make you doubt about who you are for years. This is the book I would pick up if I were asked to choose the one novel which has taught me the most about life. This book is a challenging read. However, whenever you find yourself not understanding, there will be something further ahead telling you that you are on the right track. Only by deconstructing yourself, you will be able to open your mind and learn about

The plot didn't captivate me much, even had hard time in finishing it. But some parts were amazing. In particular the sections on the human destruction of the nature, stark differences between the life in the cities and in countryside. And this, in a novel written in 1920s. I wonder what he would have written if he had lived today! Brief but seering criticism of the peoples' general expression of religious beliefs was also impressive.

This book had me so captured that I even brought it up while on a date. I just started rambling on about Pirandello’s masks and the infinite number of them, pointing out that the image you have of yourself is never the same to someone else. “If you were to try and see what others saw, it would only drive you mad. And what would it mean to know yourself if you'd be the only one who could share this knowledge? No one else could grasp the concept, even if they tried. And what sense would it all mak...

known primarily as a playwright, luigi pirandello also wrote novels, short stories, and poetry. the italian dramatist was awarded the 1934 nobel prize for literature, two years before his lonely death. one, no one, and one hundred thousand (uno, nessuno, e centomila) took pirandello well over a decade to complete and may well be his most popular novel. one, no one, and one hundred thousand is a thoughtful, meditative work on the nature of identity, self-perception, and madness. vitangelo moscard...

A pugilist existentialism wrapped inside this short fiction novel rides the edge of philosophy and insanity. This novel seems ahead of its time whereas existentialism in fiction wouldn’t become wide spread until at least a decade after the publication of this novel. The author explores the ideas of perception and reality through an attempt to remove an identity. Moscarda is a prominent man in his Italian Villa. His father worked and founded a bank that is the bedrock of the community. However, i...

This is the pivotal work of Pirandello. You can find everything he had to say summarized in here, especially in the first thirty pages. What follows is redundant, but still necessary; because the main character Moscarda proves that you can't just take another identity. But in the end Moscarda succeeds to be free and able to fill in his own life.