Appreciate a good pub? Like to chat? Bring an old book from your shelf to swap and give someone else the chance to enjoy it. Take a different book home. Maybe meet new people and enjoy some good conversation and beer all in an informal setting. When it's over, if you don't make new friends, at least you will have a new book to enjoy.
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too late: his job is gone, his wife has remarried. Mattia Pascal's fate is to live on as the ghost of the man he once was.
An explorer of identity and its mysteries, a connoisseur of black humor, Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters.
