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n_gul's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
kn0x1's review against another edition
ripetitivo come la merda ma il pensiero l’ho percepito
librisepolti's review against another edition
4.0
La visione della vita di Pirandello è qualcosa di superlativo.
themandimonster's review against another edition
5.0
I really enjoyed this. Identity crisis, mental breakdown, all while getting a narrative that breaks the fourth wall at times... It's truly delightful and interesting. This is the only translation I've ever read and I don't know Italian to read the original text, but I enjoyed this translation very much.
lwti's review against another edition
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
annie_arya's review against another edition
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
naindu's review against another edition
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Luigi Pirandello's One, No One & One Hundred Thousand follows Vitangelo Moscarda as he discovers the fragmented nature of identity, both in his own eyes and through the perceptions of others. Comic situations escalate into a crisis as Vitangelo overthinks his existence, ultimately attempting to dismantle the many "selves" forced upon him.
saralasara's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
saraaaa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
mean_racoon's review
3.5
- Solitude is never where you are; it is always where you are not, and is only possible with a stranger present;
- Good Lord, why is it, then, that you act as if you did not know it? Why is it that you insist upon believing that the only reality is your own, the reality of today, and why do you cry out in angry astonishment that your friend is wrong, although he, poor chap, whatever he might do, could never have within himself the mind that is your own?
- The unfortunate part is that you, my dear friend, will never know, and I shall never be able to tell you, how what you say to me is translated inside me.
- Afflicting need of self-abandonment. You feel yourself relaxing, you abandon yourself.
- Which is to say, they saw in me a Moscarda that was not I, properly speaking, was no one to myself; there were as many Moscardas as there were other individuals, and all of them were more real than I, who had, I repeat, no reality whatsoever so far as I myself was concerned.
-For reality is not a thing conferred upon us or which exists; it is something that we have to manufacture ourselves, if we will to be; and it will never be one for all, one forever, but continuous and subject to infinite mutations.
- Because, in order to behold yourself, you must for a moment halt life within you.
- Good Lord, why is it, then, that you act as if you did not know it? Why is it that you insist upon believing that the only reality is your own, the reality of today, and why do you cry out in angry astonishment that your friend is wrong, although he, poor chap, whatever he might do, could never have within himself the mind that is your own?
- The unfortunate part is that you, my dear friend, will never know, and I shall never be able to tell you, how what you say to me is translated inside me.
- Afflicting need of self-abandonment. You feel yourself relaxing, you abandon yourself.
- Which is to say, they saw in me a Moscarda that was not I, properly speaking, was no one to myself; there were as many Moscardas as there were other individuals, and all of them were more real than I, who had, I repeat, no reality whatsoever so far as I myself was concerned.
-For reality is not a thing conferred upon us or which exists; it is something that we have to manufacture ourselves, if we will to be; and it will never be one for all, one forever, but continuous and subject to infinite mutations.
- Because, in order to behold yourself, you must for a moment halt life within you.