One, None and a Hundred Thousand: A novel

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Your bank’s routing number. The routing number will be used to identify the bank branch when doing clearance. Ah, you, yes; because you do not see yourself now. But when you are in front of a mirror, the moment you look at yourself again, you are no longer alive." Pirandello's work was later seen as a precursor to the Theatre of the Absurd, in which writers explore the meaninglessness of human existence through deliberately confusing situations and purposeless dialogue.

VII. An Interview With Monsignor

P.S. Camminando ho guardato improvvisamente una vetrina per catturare l’io che non conosco. Pirandello, Pirandello! Si ribella, Vitangelo. Inizia a compiere azioni che scombinano e rovesciano ogni certezza sul suo apparire. Cerca disperatamente di dimostrare di non essere quello che gli altri credono. Me? What do you mean?” my friend cried. “I have a dimple; I know that; but it’s not the way you say.”

Jedan, nijedan i sto hiljada je filozofski roman. Poslednji Pirandelov. Roman je pikantno izbrušen, a tema municiozno ispripovijedana. Knjiga se bavi sopstvom, unutrašnjim stanjem sebe, i samovanjem. Pirandelo je pokušao da duboko pronikne u sociometafizičko biće, da ispita različite aspekte svoje stvarnosti. On osjeća da to nije on. Da je izgrađen nečim nepoznatim, tuđincem u sebi, i želi da ga upozna izvan sebe. Kada se Moskarda jednom pogleda u ogledalo i sa svojom ženom uoči blagu devijaciju nosa to će zauvijek promijeniti njegovo osjećanje i sagledavanje i sebe i drugih oko sebe. 'Kriza identiteta' postaće okosnica romana. Njegov lik počinje da poprima sasvim novo obličje, a stvarnost koju će da pridoda svom novom liku biće sagledavana iz jednih, nijednih ili sto hiljada očiju. Written by Nobel Laureate Luigi Pirandello over the course of 15 years, One, None, and One Hundred Thousand was a groundbreaking look at the nature of identity and the self. It’s like this: peasant women say that when a baby’s hair ends on his nape in a little tail, like the one you have there, the next born will be a male.” One, No One and One Hundred Thousand ( Italian: Uno, nessuno e centomila [ˈuːno nesˈsuːno e tˌtʃɛntoˈmiːla]) is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. It is Pirandello's last novel; his son later said that it took "more than 15 years" to write. [1] In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the "...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life:It would risk spoiling the novel’s ending to detail just what Moscarda does in its less ponderous second half, but suffice it to say that his exploits involve a bank, a house, and his wife, all three of which his late father bequeathed to him as an inheritance. However, rather than supporting his theory that you’re an irreconcilably different person for each of your friends, it needs to be said that what happens to him is the result of his concerted efforts, and not the result of reality simply playing out as he describes it. And more importantly, there are more prosaic (yet more compelling) explanations for the novel’s denouement than the suggestion that other people were repelled by the fact that he no longer satisfied their conceptions of him. For example, the trustees of his inherited stake in the bank begin turning against him, not because he “dismantles” the “me” that he was for them but simply because they fear losing money.

And the obverse, how other people construct their own version of his identity for themselves is an unavoidable truth Moscarda refuses to accept, particularly the way his wife Dida has constructed his identity as Genge, her little Genge, a little, loveable fool. Ahhh . . . unacceptable! On top of this, how the two men running the bank his father founded, Quantorzo, the manager, and Firbo, the councilor, likewise think him a harmless fool. And the people in his small city? Since Moscarda benefits so directly and handsomely from the business of the bank, they think him a usurer. A usurer! Now he really has reason to be driven berserk. Oppure rivedersi in un foto scattata nel momento meno opportuno e con la faccia più assurda che si possa fare :"Ma voi mi vedete così?"Bu söze katılmamak elde değil; çünkü acı da mizah da var bu eserde. Yalnızlık da uyanış da. Başlarda biraz konunun içine dalmakta zorlansam da sevdiğim, karakter çözümlemesini beğendiğim bir kitap oldu. Yazarın diğer eserlerini de okuma isteği uyandırdığı da bir gerçek. Besides being present into the nuclear DNA, ribonucleotides are also found in the DNA contained in two types of eukaryotic organelles: mitochondria [ 148, 149, 150] and chloroplasts [ 151]. Irrespective of whether we have sympathy for such ontological convictions or not, what weakens Pirandello’s arguments is also what weakens One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand as a novel. Namely, Moscarda explains his philosophical discovery with the kind of urgency that suggests it’s a big deal, with enormous ramifications for how we lead our lives and how society functions. Unfortunately, he doesn’t show this via a narrative or plot so much as tell us via the mental soliloquies introduced above, something which implies that, on the contrary, deviations in perception don’t actually make society unworkable. And in the rare instance where Pirandello does attempt to illustrate the threats posed by divergent perceptions, he leaves omissions or speaks in the abstract, scared that giving concrete examples would undermine his point: I also note some confusion in the title given this translated book – it is listed as both ‘One, None’ and ‘One, No One.’ Vitangelo Moscarda is a rich man. One day his wife tells him that her nose is crooked. This statement becomes an excuse for Moscarda to see himself in the mirror again and again and pay attention to know what he looks like from the point of view of others. He also doubts his own image and moral character.