One, none, a hundred thousand
One, none, one hundred thousand (original title: Uno, nessuno e centomila ) is a prose work by the Italian author and Nobel Prize laureate Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936).
The work was written in the years from 1909 and was published for the first time in December 1925 as a continuation work with the subtitle Considerazioni die Vitangelo Moscarda, generali sulla vita degli uomini particolari sulla propria, in otto libri , in the weekly magazine La Fiera Letteraria . Shorter sections had already been published in January 1915 in the journal Sapientia under the title Ricostruire . The book edition followed in 1926 at Bemporad in Florence , since 1932 at Mondadori , where the copyrights were Pirandellos. The first translation into German was submitted by Hans Feist in 1928 by Rascher Verlag . Other German-language editions were published in 1969 by S. Fischer Verlag and in 1982 in the Suhrkamp library .
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The hero of the work, Vitangelo Moscarda , is made aware by his wife Dida that he has a crooked nose. He then “begins a new life, ends up in psychiatry and finds that having a name is tantamount to a death sentence; one is free if one becomes new every moment. "
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- ↑ Storia del testo, in Luigi Pirandello, Uno, nessuno e centomila, Universale economica Feltrinelli / Classico, Cura di Ugo M. Olivieri, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore , 17ma ed.Dicembre 2017, Milan, ISBN 978-88-07-90039-6 , P. 161
- ↑ Manfred Poser, in: Kritische Ausgabe , November 25, 2011, on the Internet at http://kritische-ausgabe.de/artikel/einer-keiner-hundtausend , accessed on May 5, 2018