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One, None and a Hundred Thousand
One, None and a Hundred Thousand | Luigi Pirandello
2017 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. 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...." Vitangelo, the protagonist, discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, and everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona 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 confusing 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.
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Uno Nessuno Centomila | Luigi Pirandello
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Uno, nessuno e centomila | Luigi Pirandello
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We don‘t have a single identity, that others attribute to us, but infinite identities ...

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I wanted to be alone in an altogether unusual way, a new way. Quite the contrary of what you think: that is to say, without myself and, to be precise, with a stranger at hand.

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Uno, nessuno e centomila | Luigi Pirandello

"Riconoscete che un minuto fa voi eravate un altro. . . non solo, ma voi eravate anche cento altri, centomila altri. Vedete piuttosto se vi sembra di poter essere così sicuro che di qui a domani sarete quel che assumete di essere oggi." ☆ "Recognize that a minute ago you were another, but also a hundred or a hundred thousand others. You will see if you can be so sure that between now and tomorrow you will be that which you assume to be today." ☆

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Uno, nessuno e centomila | Luigi Pirandello
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"I couldn't see myself like others saw me, place myself in front of my body and watch it live like that of another."
Began my first prose piece by Pirandello, and I'm already hooked! In "One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand," Vitangelo discovers that his nose is crooked and begins to descent into madness as he realizes that the person he sees in the mirror is only one of thousands of versions of himself that others see..or is he no one at all?

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Gino
Uno, nessuno e centomila | Luigi Pirandello

Chip e chop

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narioco
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Crazy, I could identify with the identity crisis.

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