description: Pascal, a landowner fallen on hard times and trapped in a miserable marriage, runs away from home and wins a lot of money at the gaming tables in Monte Carlo. Meanwhile, a dead body has been found in his village, and his neighbors assume it is Pascal- that he has killed himself. Seizing the chance to create a new life, Pascal travels to Rome under an assumed name, struggles to invent a different identity, fails, and returns home. There, he finds his wife has remarried. Now he must act out the role of a living ghost. These tragic events are recounted with verve and wit in Simborowski's spirited translation.
language: English
title: The Late Mattia Pascal
titlecomplete: The Late Mattia Pascal (new edition)
genres: Fiction, Italy, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Italian Literature
ratings_count: 27883
places: Monte Carlo, Rome, Italy
publisher: Dedalus Limited