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Publication date1926Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)Pages81 ppOne, No One and One Hundred Thousand (: Uno, Nessuno e Centomila ) is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer. The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the '.bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life:Moscarda one, no one and one hundred thousand.' The pages of the unfinished novel remained on Pirandello's desk for years and he would occasionally take out extracts and insert them into other works only to return, later, to the novel in a sort of uninterrupted compositive circle. Finally finished, Uno, Nessuno e Centomila came out in episodes between December 1925 and June 1926 in the magazine Fiera Letteraria.
Contents.Plot Vitangelo Moscarda discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the image of Vitangelo that he himself has constructed and believes himself to be. The reader is immediately immersed in a cruel game of falsifying projections, mirroring the reality of social existence itself, which imperiously dictate their rules. As a result, the first, ironic 'awareness' of Vitangelo consists in the knowledge of that which he definitely is not; the preliminary operation must therefore consist in the spiteful destruction of all of these fictitious masks. Only after this radical step toward madness and folly in the eyes of the world can Vitangelo finally begin to follow the path toward his true self. He discovers, though, that if his body can be one, his spirit certainly is not. And this duplicity gradually develops into a disconcerting and extremely complex multiplicity.
How can one come to know the true foundation, the substate of the self? Vitangelo seeks to catch it by surprise as its shows itself in a brief flash on the surface of consciousness. But this attempt at revealing the secret self, chasing after it as if it were an enemy that must be forced to surrender, does not give the desired results. Just as soon as it appears, the unknown self evaporates and recomposes itself into the familiar attitudes of the superficial self. In this extremely modern Secretum where there is no to indicate, with the profound voice of conscience, the absolute truth to desire, where desperation is entrusted to a bitter humour, corrosive and healing at the same time, the unity of the self disintegrates into diverse stratifications. Vitangelo is one of those '.particularly intelligent souls.who break through the illusion of the unity of the self and feel themselves to be multiform, a league of many Is.'
As notes in the Dissertation chapter of.Vitangelo's extremely lucid reflections seek out the possible objections, confine them into an increasingly restricted space and, finally, kill them with the weapons of rigorous and stringent argumentation. The imaginary interlocutors, ('Dear sirs, excuse me'.' Be honest now'.' You are shocked?
Oh my God, you are turning pale'.), which incarnate these objections rather than opening up Vitangelo's monologue into a dialogue fracture it into two levels: one external and falsely reassuring, the other internal and disquieting, but surely more true.
My son asked me what I was reading and for a second I did not know how to answer. I only said:- One, no one, and one hundred thousand.- What do you mean?- Well you're one, right?- Yes.- And for me you are my son, to Anna you're her biggest brother, to grandmother you are her grandson, for the teacher you are 'Peter, that boy who disturbs the class', to Victor you are his friend, for each person you're someone-else.- (smiling) Yes.- But for you? Who are y My son asked me what I was reading and for a second I did not know how to answer. I only said:- One, no one, and one hundred thousand.- What do you mean?- Well you're one, right?- Yes.- And for me you are my son, to Anna you're her biggest brother, to grandmother you are her grandson, for the teacher you are 'Peter, that boy who disturbs the class', to Victor you are his friend, for each person you're someone-else.- (smiling) Yes.- But for you? Who are you to you? None of those, right?
Each sees you in his own way which is different from how you see yourself. And so you are one, you are a hundred thousand of you to a hundred thousand people and none of those hundred of thousands of you is not you, the one you know you are.- (Laughing) See that if you explain, I understand? “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 writing. He hold “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 writing. He holds a page in front of the class and asks:'Say, is there writing on this page?' , the entire class chimes in.' But how is that! The page is empty!'
The class is baffled. The students murmur, some adamantly believe that the teacher will change his mind and berate anyone who goes back on their word, so they voice their previous opinion louder. Others confusedly hold their opinions in check, in case the teacher proves them wrong.The teacher smiles, and then in one single movement shows us the other side of the paper, the one that was not facing us, but the one that was, until then, facing him. The page was empty. The teacher was right.PerspectivesWhy is perspective so elusive? In a world of differing perspectives, which are the absolute truths?
Or is there anything known as absolute truth?Perspectivism falls among those philosophical views that give rise to more questions than answers, especially considering we never truly have a particular method of inquiry or a structural theory of knowledge. The view was first coined by Friedrich Nietzche.' In so far as the word 'knowledge' has any meaning, the world is knowable; but it is interpretable otherwise, it has no meaning behind it, but countless meanings.—'Perspectivism.' It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all the other drives to accept as a norm.' -Friedrich Nietzche in The Will to PowerIn essence, we never have a perfect perspective as we choose to interpret the world as we would best want to make peace with it.
A husband who despises low-fat milk would still drive around way out of his regular trip back home to get his wife her desired beverage, only so that he gets to be in the right. And so, that becomes his norm, and the wife lives oblivious to the fact that he despises low-fat milk.
Let me come back to this a bit later.Cooley's Looking-glass SelfThe above meme is a perfect example of looking-glass self. The social psychological concept of the looking-glass self describes the development of one's self and of one's identity through one's interpersonal interactions within the context of society. Charles Horton Cooley clarified that society is an interweaving and inter-working of mental selves.The looking-glass self comprises three main components.- We imagine how we must appear to others.- We imagine and react to what we feel their judgment of that appearance must be.- We develop our self through the judgments of others.Hmmm.
But where's the review?One, None and a Hundred Thousand is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the '.bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life: Moscarda one, no one and one hundred thousand.' The pages of the unfinished novel remained on Pirandello's desk for years and he would occasionally take out extracts and insert them into other works only to return, later, to the novel in a sort of uninterrupted compositive circle.
This is one of those books that blows you away. Pirandello's novel is one of those that 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 novel is not an easy 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 m This is one of those books that blows you away.
Pirandello's novel is one of those that 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 novel is not an easy 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 yourself. Keep this in mind; otherwise, frustration won't let you enjoy and appreciate this novel.Am I who I really think I am? Nope, that is just one of the “one hundred thousand” sides that make up the whole of you. These sides are the many versions of yourself, which can only be seen by the people around you.
You can only see your “own” version of yourself, but is this your true self? “No one” really knows, not even you.After reading this book, all I was sure of is that nothing in this world is objective. Life is just an illusion. An illusion that changes with time as our perceptions sharpen up or as we allow our dogmas and beliefs to be flexible in a world where absolutely nothing is stiff or one sided.
This philosophical book was first published in 1926 and was written by Italian novelist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936). Pirandello won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 'for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art.' The story is about a man Vitangelo Moscarda who one day, was told my his wife that his nose leans to the right. Moscarda does not notice it before as he thinks that his nose was straight (this image of himself seems to be what 'one' means in the title). However, the This philosophical book was first published in 1926 and was written by Italian novelist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936). Pirandello won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 'for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art.' The story is about a man Vitangelo Moscarda who one day, was told my his wife that his nose leans to the right.
Moscarda does not notice it before as he thinks that his nose was straight (this image of himself seems to be what 'one' means in the title). However, the comment that his nose leans to the right makes him realize that his perception of himself may not necessarily be accurate (the 'no one' in the title). Lastly in the story, Moscarda realizes that many people may have their own perceptions about himself - the son of a usurer who used to own a bank (the 'one hundred thousand' in the title).Pirandello's favorite theme of the relativity of perception and the fragmentation of reality into incomprehensible pieces is his philosophical core. Closely connected to it is the reflection on language and the impossibility of objective and satisfactory communication between speakers, due to the fact that we all charge words with our own meanings. As Moscarda obsesses over the painful realization that he is only what others make of him, he tries to subvert others' reality by reinventing himself as a new, different Moscarda. But his attempt to possess his own self is in vain, and his only way out is self-denial, starting with a refusal to look at mirrors.Overall, this is a nice philosophical book but sometime boring as the plot is so thin and the characters seem to be like distant people no one can identify easily with.
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 mirro 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 person, but a glance a few seconds later shows another.
What is seen is influenced by the person observing and by ever-changing shifts in emotions, thoughts, happenings and movements. Nothing stays still. Everything changes.
All that influences how a person is perceived is legion. Is there one correct true version of a person or does it not exist or are there many? See the title.Moscarda wants to understand who he is. He analyzes the question from a zillion different perspectives.
He talks to us and tells us his thoughts over and over again. Then he attempts to change how others see him, but his thoughts and words continue. He is repetitive and the analysis becomes repetitive. What starts as an interesting question is pushed to extreme.Does it sound like I have not enjoyed the book? I have given it two stars, which means it was OK, but could have been better. It has provided me with mental gymnastics.
The questions posed are interesting, and the author, in the guise of Moscarda, stretches the central theme to other topics worthy of consideration too, for example the ability of flora and fauna to communicate. What we know today about animals’ thought processes and the complicated interdependence between flora and microbes show that some of the ideas expressed in the book were ahead of their time.The author, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. The book was published in 1933. It is considered a classic, and I had never heard of the guy. I had to give it a try. His writing has a particular style that is fun to be acquainted with. You could say the thread of thoughts are interminably long-winded.
Or you can say they intrigue and twirl, revolving in diminishing and expanding circles, one minute tying your thoughts into knots, in the next making you laugh.Just as the book says, none of us sees anything the same. This is a theme all of us have talked about on GR, isn’t it? In extension, if none of us see things in the same way, how can we possibly know who we truly are?Except, except.with time you can draw some conclusions about a person, based on what they say and think and do. You see I cannot stop thinking about the questions posed in the book!Chris Mattews narrates the audiobook. He does a good job. What is said is clearly spoken, and it Is not hard to follow.
In the beginning he speaks a little bit fast.You cannot listen to the book for long stretches. Your head gets tied into a knot, not because of how it is read but because of its philosophical content. It is interesting, does give food for thought, but is too exaggerated and repetitive.
Moscarda's life crumbled in a sec when his wife casually mentions his tilted nose that he never noticed. He looks in the mirror and sees all the imperfections in his face, now magnified. He panics and starts questioning if this is how people see him and if this body resembles the real him.The protagonist then seeks his solitude in order to figure out which ONE he is: him as seen by self or the other 100 thousand selves that people see in him, or none of the above. It was then that Moscarda's life crumbled in a sec when his wife casually mentions his tilted nose that he never noticed. He looks in the mirror and sees all the imperfections in his face, now magnified.
He panics and starts questioning if this is how people see him and if this body resembles the real him.The protagonist then seeks his solitude in order to figure out which ONE he is: him as seen by self or the other 100 thousand selves that people see in him, or none of the above. It was then that he looked in the mirror at his first laugh as a madman.Genius idea by Luigi Pirandello, very philosophical and existential to my liking.Having said all the positive things above, the elements of a novel were very weak. I understand the focus is on the main theme but a more thought through plot would have better held the ideas together and kept the reader in some sort of anticipation.Besides, over-excessive repetition (excuse my redundancy). The book starts very promising but before even halfway, you realise that the author is going in circles around the same single topic with no new insights, events nor themes. Dissapointing on that front.Confused, should i give a 3 or 4 stars? Will go for 4 stars for the memorable topic that will stick for a long time.quote:'Solitude (here: loneliness) is never with you, it is always without you, and possible only with the presence of an alien self or place. You are the outsider there'.A friend asked me:did the book change your perception of how you view yourself and what is your current perception?
Are we made up of how we view ourselves or through others eyes or none of the above?and i answered:The book is brilliant but it didnt change my perception. Humbly, this is my playground genre and i have read many books on existential philosophy, existential psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to ask these question and form a view pre-reading it. Here is my view:The question touches on two major areas: Identity and Existentialism1- Identity: what defines it? Is it inwards i.e. We are what we think and believe or outwards i.e. How people perceive us?
Well, i believe it is both, maybe at 70%-30%. Identity reflects set of facts (name, birth date, etc.) and experiences that we have been through so it is shaped by both inward and outward. I say 70% inwards because identity is a subjective thing, even if i have a misperception of myself, i still have alignment of my identity to perception (even if not accurate). Anyway topic reminds me of a quote by Saramo in Blindness: 'inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we really are'2- Existentialism: all of the above rationale becomes irrelevant if you believe that life is absurd and if you are skeptical if we do exist/ we are real. Obviously, my opinion is that: we think therefore we THINK we are. It is all illusion, we could be a projection of a hologram or inside a matrix.
What can I do, the only way is to play the game: life. That is the only thing we are can fathom just like a soldier in a virtual game.as for the author:'i no longer look myself in the mirror, it never even occurs to me to want to know what has happened to my face and to my appearance'No name.
No memory today of yesterday's name; of today's name tomorrow. If the name is the thing; if a name in us is the concept of every thing placed outside of us.
Well then, let each carve this name that i bore among men. And then leave it in peace. i am alive and i do for the dead.
For those who have concluded I am alive and i do not conclude. Life does not conclude, and life knows nothing of names'.
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 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, it only takes a comment by his wife to pull the string of his unraveling. The reader then bears witness to Moscarda’s often on-sided conversation on identity. We cannot really judge who we are. As we stare at ourselves in the mirror, we cannot see that person.
Furthermore, no one person can see that person either. He is, in a way, a stranger to himself and to others. There are only versions of this person.
The person we see ourselves and the way others see us, thus the title One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand.Moscardo tries to strip his identity from others so he can truly see himself. He threatens much of the town in the process and it leads to him being shot. This aspect further explores how everyone relies on that identity and his predictable behavior. In the end he finds an identity that’s very similar to a monk, stripped of everything. The exploration can also be viewed as someone with too much pressure on himself.
It seems the author went through a series of crises while writing the book. Perhaps it is also an exploration of how to lift off the burden society places on an individual.These kinds of concepts resonate even today where people can carefully sculpt an online existence. It can also explain how we can get into silly arguments on the internet when someone upsets our mental cart. It’s also interesting how we can perceive people online, but sees them differently in person.This is definitely a cerebral book with mostly philosophical type examples until actions near the end of the book drive a story testing the theories. It’s a short but very intense kind of book.Favorite Parts.when seeing people's eyes on me, I felt as if I were being subjected to a horrible oppression, thinking that all those eyes gave me an image that surely wasn't the one I knew myself but another that I could neither know nor prevent; merely saying mad things was nothing: I felt like doing them, doing mad things: rolling over in the streets or flying along in dance-steps, winking here, sticking out my tongue and making a face there.' 81'.in this oppression. Each wants to impose on the others that world he has inside himself, as if it were outside, to make all see it his way, and the others cannot be in it except as he sees them.'
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 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 to this or that image that (he thinks) different people might have of himself, because ultimately, the image never coincides with how he perceives himself, nor with how yet another and yet another person perceives him. We can never get inside the other one's head and find out, for real, what they think or feel, is the main premise, reiterated time and time again.This realization - what to me, though, seemed like a standard enough idea - takes such deep roots in the protagonist's mind, and so shakes his existence, that he decides to do away with all these, ultimately false, identities that the outside world, including his closest people, may pin on him, and shed them to the very basic, naked substance that would remain if he did so. Reading the blurb on the cover I wondered how this book would compare to Gogol's short story 'The Nose'.Ofcourse in both stories the protagonist's nose plays a central role in an event leading to a chain of consequences.
In The Nose because it embarks on a life of its own. In Pirandello's story as the protagonist's wife points out to him that his nose is crooked; something he never realized before and this realization sparks a devastating identity crisis.A superficial and certainly Reading the blurb on the cover I wondered how this book would compare to Gogol's short story 'The Nose'.Ofcourse in both stories the protagonist's nose plays a central role in an event leading to a chain of consequences. In The Nose because it embarks on a life of its own. In Pirandello's story as the protagonist's wife points out to him that his nose is crooked; something he never realized before and this realization sparks a devastating identity crisis.A superficial and certainly insufficient analysis does indicate similarities in theme, such as social class and (self) identity. Both incorporate an element of absurdity, yet Pirandello adresses something that perhaps is more profoundly human, or psychological, and less attached to societal and cultural norms, even though in this regard the two stories can hardly be argued to be in complete opposition.While at some points in the book I felt the author used a bit too many words to make a point, without it adding much from an aesthetics point of view, or perhaps even drawing away from that, I found it to be an intriguing book and it made me curious to read more works by the author. One, No One and One Hundred Thousand is about a guy who starts to question his existence and his place in life after being mentioned of an unimportant flaw on his face by his wife.
Pirandello's bitterest book (by his own comment) faces you with some kind of paradoxical reality that can even be disturbing in some parts, but his humorous language doesn't let you down. I don't know if Italo Svevo was under the influence of the language of this book when he wrote his amazing novel Zeno's conscience One, No One and One Hundred Thousand is about a guy who starts to question his existence and his place in life after being mentioned of an unimportant flaw on his face by his wife. Pirandello's bitterest book (by his own comment) faces you with some kind of paradoxical reality that can even be disturbing in some parts, but his humorous language doesn't let you down. I don't know if Italo Svevo was under the influence of the language of this book when he wrote his amazing novel Zeno's conscience but I kept reminding of it when reading Pierandello's. DISCLAIMER: I hate reviewing classics, I suck at it, there is really nothing I can say about them that is objective or relevant, so you can skip this.There is no denying that this book is brilliant. Pirandello is brilliant.
No doubt here. Is it something that I would recommend to anyone, though?
Not a chance.It's a rather complex story disguised as a simple book, mainly because there is nothing really going on and it's also very short - and thank God for that because I don't know DISCLAIMER: I hate reviewing classics, I suck at it, there is really nothing I can say about them that is objective or relevant, so you can skip this.There is no denying that this book is brilliant. Pirandello is brilliant. No doubt here.
Is it something that I would recommend to anyone, though? Not a chance.It's a rather complex story disguised as a simple book, mainly because there is nothing really going on and it's also very short - and thank God for that because I don't know if my brain could handle anything longer than this.This is the type of books that for me fall under the category of 'intensive, mind-boggling gymnastics'. If you get into this, thinking that you can casually read without paying it too much attention, think again because you would not appreciate it to fullest. You would probably find it tedious.This book is random, is weird, is all around the place, and it may not seem like it makes any sense at all, BUT for me, it was just genius. I do personally enjoy the exasperation of topics regarding identity and psychological extravaganza because that's how my brain works pretty much on a daily basis.
This book is a neurotic freak-show. If you're not into that, just stir away.The reason why it didn't warrant the fifth star, is that it was really the worst timing for me to pick up this book.
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This week I just had so much going on in the academical life that I simply could not invest my full attention to this book. I just kept getting distracted while reading, often having to reread passages and such, so I feel like I was prevented from fully enjoying the experience. I'll definitely reread this at some point because it truly is brilliant. This is in some ways the ultimate novel of the mind, as the narrator delves into his own identity, thrown into an existential crisis by a throwaway observation by his wife about the shape of his nose, something he'd never noticed about himself before.
He realises his self-perception differs from the perception of others, but takes it further, suggesting that he is not the same person that his wife sees and there are multiple versions of him. As you'd expect from Pirandello it's about reality and This is in some ways the ultimate novel of the mind, as the narrator delves into his own identity, thrown into an existential crisis by a throwaway observation by his wife about the shape of his nose, something he'd never noticed about himself before. He realises his self-perception differs from the perception of others, but takes it further, suggesting that he is not the same person that his wife sees and there are multiple versions of him. As you'd expect from Pirandello it's about reality and identity and madness. The environment is barely sketched, although there are occasional very lyrical descriptions of interiors and long passages are purely internal. This book delves into Moscarda's metaphysical realization that how you personally perceive your 'self' is not necessarily how others see you; therefore, even if indirectly and unwillingly, everyone projects multiple exterior personalities. Fueled by this crisis he begins a quest to eradicate all parallel perceptions of himself and discover his true identity.
Tragically, however, he concludes that you can never see your true self (in the mirror for instance) because direct observation destroys au This book delves into Moscarda's metaphysical realization that how you personally perceive your 'self' is not necessarily how others see you; therefore, even if indirectly and unwillingly, everyone projects multiple exterior personalities. Fueled by this crisis he begins a quest to eradicate all parallel perceptions of himself and discover his true identity. Tragically, however, he concludes that you can never see your true self (in the mirror for instance) because direct observation destroys authenticity. Throughout his narration Moscarda argues that anyone who truly contemplates these premises will, like himself, fall into madness.Interspersed between all philosophical meanderings, the quasi-essay is complemented with comical episodes: from (i) his wife telling him that his nose is slightly crooked suddenly igniting his descent into insanity, to (ii) Moscarda running in front of a mirror trying to capture his true self off guard.context of the excerpt: you are receiving a friend at your place, but a new one arrives; you feel discomfort and ask the first friend to leave'Reflect a moment.
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There was nothing about your old friend, in himself, to justify your sending him away when the new one came. The two of them. might have gone on and had a pleasant little chat for a half-hour or so, in your parlor, with no embarrassment to either of them.
It was you who felt the embarrassment. Why was this? Why it was because, upon the arrival of your new friend, you suddenly discovered that you were two separate persons.
And you had to. send one of them away at a certain point. Not your old friend, no; it was yourself that you sent away, the self that you are to your old friend, for the reason that you felt that self to be altogether different from the one that you are, or would like to be, to your new friend.' The theme of this book is the multiplicity of the identities of the human beings, the masks. Nietzsche’s idea was that personal identity is consciousness, and this is what Pirandello wants to say in this book, his last novel which took him many years to complete.The protagonist of this book will try to get rid of all the masks, the one he believes to have made himself (one) and those that are imposed by others (one hundred thousand ). To succeed he will need to get conscious, get rid of The theme of this book is the multiplicity of the identities of the human beings, the masks. Nietzsche’s idea was that personal identity is consciousness, and this is what Pirandello wants to say in this book, his last novel which took him many years to complete.The protagonist of this book will try to get rid of all the masks, the one he believes to have made himself (one) and those that are imposed by others (one hundred thousand ).
To succeed he will need to get conscious, get rid of all the identities, and become 'no one', nobody. Identity is however the necessary condition for a living in society, and hence the protagonist gets its way only in a free zone, where the social rules do not matter, and the logical reasoning is suspended: the loony bin.“One, no one and one hundred thousand” is often considered the masterpiece of Pirandello; it is complex and requires a careful reading, a very elastic concept of identity and the ability to extrapolate the key messages from long monologues and reflections that are not always linear.
It is the great work of a complex and culturally rich personality, almost the summary of his studies about self, identity and personality as they were theorized at the beginning of last century. Personally I prefer the simpler works of Pirandello, with more humor and less hidden messages.It is not a book for those who love modern fiction. It is amazing how Pirandello exhausts the idea of self. Not much in a individual sense. But in the perception of others about ourselves.
Each person has a image of ourselves and we know that. This is made clear when Pirandello points that sometimes we avoid meeting two persons together, due to the conflicting image of ourselves that they have. It also explores the journey of breaking those images.
But this is done by the main character in a destructive manner, without building anything after. It is amazing how Pirandello exhausts the idea of self.
Not much in a individual sense. But in the perception of others about ourselves. Each person has a image of ourselves and we know that. This is made clear when Pirandello points that sometimes we avoid meeting two persons together, due to the conflicting image of ourselves that they have.
It also explores the journey of breaking those images. But this is done by the main character in a destructive manner, without building anything after.The character kind of finish in a peaceful state, but this process seems way too destructive and something maybe undoable.Although it is a book most about perception of others about one person, it is extremely individualist. It is not only narrated by the main character, but lot of dialogues becomes monologues, where the reaction of the person hearing is deduced by what the main character says. There's a whole realm of authors who have a way of displacing identity in weird and abstract ways. Pirandello can be classed with Maurice Blanchot, Paul Auster, and others in this category. They have a way of getting under your skin.Pirandello, of 'Six Characters' fame, starts the dissolution of the protagonist's self, through a somewhat comic, Gogol-ish conceit, and it gets weirder an d weirder from there. While it can be maddening and abstruse at times, it's ultimately quite reward There's a whole realm of authors who have a way of displacing identity in weird and abstract ways.
Pirandello can be classed with Maurice Blanchot, Paul Auster, and others in this category. They have a way of getting under your skin.Pirandello, of 'Six Characters' fame, starts the dissolution of the protagonist's self, through a somewhat comic, Gogol-ish conceit, and it gets weirder an d weirder from there. While it can be maddening and abstruse at times, it's ultimately quite rewarding.
No memory today of yesterday’s name; of today’s name, tomorrow. If the name is the thing; if a name in us is the concept of every thing placed outside of us; and without a name you don’t have the concept, and the thing remains in us as if blind, indistinct and undefined: well then, let each carve this name that I bore among men, a funeral epigraph, on the brow of that image in which I appeared to him, and then leave it in peace, and let there be no more talk about it. It is fitting for the dead. For those who have concluded. I am alive and I do not conclude.
Life does not conclude. And life knows nothing of names. This tree, tremulous pulse of new leaves.
Uno Nessuno Centomila English Pdf
I am this tree. Tree, cloud; tomorrow book or wind: the book I read, the wind I drink. All outside, wandering.”—.