The Late Mattia Pascal
Contributors: Charles Simic (Introduction); William Weaver (Translator)
Edition: Tra edition
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: November 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781590171158
Subjects: Modern fiction; Literary; Italian Novel And Short Story; Fiction - General; Fiction; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; European - Italian; General
First sentence: The idea, or rather the suggestion that I should write this book was given me by my reverend friend, Don Eligio Pelegrinotto, the present librarian of the Boccamazza collection, to whom I will entrust this manuscript as soon as I have finished it, if I ever do.