The Late Mattia Pascal: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Late Mattia Pascal, credited to Luigi Pirandello, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello. (Translated by Arthur Livingston.) Read in English by Peter Tucker Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, allowing opportunities to slip away from him and living on the accumulated but dwindling resources of his family. As a young man he finds himself duped into poverty and an unhappy marriage made sadder by grief. He escapes on an adventure at Monte Carlo where he submits himself to Fortune which provides him with an extraordinary erasure of his old identity and the funds to maintain a new one. With the passage of a couple of years however he becomes horribly disillusioned with his situation and the isolation it brings. In a dramatic act he reassumes his old persona and returns to his home town, only to find himself written out of the script of his own life. In this novel Pirandello explores, as in his other works, themes of identity and reality, laced with plenty of wit and irony. (Peter Tucker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Late Mattia Pascal
• Author credits: Luigi Pirandello
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 8:41:49

Catalogue topics

• identity
• psychological
• mask

Track guide

1. 00 - Translator's note. Author's preface. — 22:29
2. 01 - Chapter I — 4:41
3. 02 - Chapter II — 7:47
4. 03 - Chapter III — 17:53
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 37:01
6. 05 - Chapter V — 35:28
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 30:22
8. 07 - Chapter VII — 26:51
9. 08 - Chapter VIII — 30:48
10. 09 - Chapter IX — 21:15
11. 10 - Chapter X — 27:23
12. 11 - Chapter XI — 41:15
13. 12 - Chapter XII — 31:32
14. 13 - Chapter XIII — 29:00
15. 14 - Chapter XIV — 21:15
16. 15 - Chapter XV — 30:00
17. 16 - Chapter XVI — 47:01
18. 17 - Chapter XVII — 24:32
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 35:16

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