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Mattia
Mattia Mattia carries the biblical resonance of the replacement apostle — the one chosen not through obvious distinction but through the divine randomness of lot — alongside the Pirandellian dimension of identity as something fragile and provisional rather than fixed. Pirandello's Mattia Pascal became one of early modernism's defining explorations of selfhood, a character who discovers that a name is not a prison but also not nothing. It suits protagonists whose crises are fundamentally questions of who they are.
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Mattia Pascal
The Late Mattia Pascal — Luigi Pirandello
The man who escapes his miserable life by allowing everyone to believe he has died, only to discover that freedom from identity is itself an unbearable imprisonment, in Pirandello's foundational modernist novel.
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