![]() ![]() ![]() Thus he is simultaneously without a self-``no one''-and the theater for myriad selves-``one hundred thousand.'' In a crazed search for an identity independent of others' preconceptions, Moscarda careens from one disaster to the next and finds his freedom even as he is declared insane. ![]() Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his reality'' when his wife cavalierly informs him that his nose tilts to the right suddenly he realizes that ``for others I was not what till now, privately, I had imagined myself to be,'' and that, consequently, his identity is evanescent, based purely on the shifting perceptions of those around him. The great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author. ![]()
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