The Late Mattia Pascal
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You play Mattia Pascal, alive, walking Miragno under your own name, and still dead in its civil register. In a library housed in a deconsecrated church, where the catalogue files theology between agriculture and umbrellas, the librarian lays out an old newspaper folded to the notice of your death, your wife among those accepting condolences. He wants the record corrected. Instead he clears a row of blank cards, and you begin with the day you left town meaning not to return.
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