{"product_id":"one-none-and-a-hundred-thousand-pirandello","title":"One, None and a Hundred Thousand","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBy Luigi Pirandello\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an autobiographical letter  the author refers to this work as the \"...bitterest of all  profoundly humoristic  about the decomposition of life....\" Vitangelo  the protagonist  discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows  and everyone he has ever met  has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the image of Vitangelo that he himself has constructed and believes himself to be. The reader is immediately immersed in a cruel game of confusing projections  mirroring the reality of social existence itself  which imperiously dictate their rules. As a result  the first  ironic \"awareness\" of Vitangelo consists in the knowledge of that which he definitely is not; the preliminary operation must therefore consist in the spiteful destruction of all of these fictitious masks.","brand":"Lushena Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":52437639659800,"sku":"9781639235711","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/8203\/8296\/files\/71njgNKhRKL._SL1360.jpg?v=1784923889","url":"https:\/\/lushenabooksinc.com\/products\/one-none-and-a-hundred-thousand-pirandello","provider":"Lushena","version":"1.0","type":"link"}