The Late Mattia Pascal
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1500731072 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 268 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Great Story, Horrible English Translation. This an amazing story, I think everyone should read it. However, this book translation is horrible. There are typos after typos, sentences are backwards, chapter titles are not translated correctly, and there's missing information that is very important for the development of the story. Oh and if you like page numbers and reading the introduction chapter, those don't exist in this book. I'm very sad I bought this version. My colleges bought a different version, and they are getting a lot more out of the story than I am. At the end of the book
He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. In 1934, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. Commenting on his work
The Late Mattia Pascal
These three writers are Pirandello, Kafka, and Borges.-- Leonardo SciasciaVery funny, often hilariously so. It is also moving, disturbing, tragic. Three writers of the twentieth century have given voice to--and leant their names to--our disquiet, our injuries, and our fear; at the same time, through the catharsis or measure of contemplation, which are among the revelations of art, they have helped us to live by tempering our anxiety and desperation; and I am using this term, tempering, in a musical senseof striking a more pure, more cristalline, more vibrant note. For Pirandello saw comedy residing i