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  • One, None, and a Hundred Thousand

  • By: Luigi Pirandello
  • Narrated by: Kris Dyer
  • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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One, None, and a Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
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Summary

Luigi Pirandello's extraordinary final novel begins when Vitangelo Moscarda's wife remarks that Vitangelo's nose tilts to the right. This commonplace interaction spurs the novel's unemployed, wealthy narrator to examine himself, the way he perceives others and the ways that others perceive him.

At first he only notices small differences in how he sees himself and how others do; but his self-examination quickly becomes relentless, dizzying, leading to often darkly comic results as Vitangelo decides that he must demolish that version of himself that others see.

Pirandello said of his 1926 novel that it 'deals with the disintegration of the personality. It arrives at the most extreme conclusions, the farthest consequences'. Its unnerving humour and existential dissection of modern identity finds counterparts in Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov.
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Boring voice

Story wasn't what I thought, long drawn out and the final chapter says it all...no conclusion

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Fabulous Novel from Nobel Prize Winner

A weird and wonderful ride of a novel, brilliantly read by Kris Dyer. Pirandello was a Nobel Prize winner and with the mix of humour, philosophy, and perception you can see why.

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