Books like The Late Mattia Pascal
Unhappily married and in debt in a small Ligurian town, Mattia Pascal wins a fortune at Monte Carlo and, reading of his own death in the newspaper, decides to start a new life under a new name.
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One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
When his wife remarks that his nose tilts to the right, Vitangelo Moscarda realises that everyone sees a different man, and sets out to destroy every one of the Moscardas others believe in.
Confessions of Zeno
Zeno Cosini, a Trieste businessman, writes out his life for his psychiatrist, his last cigarettes, his choice of the wrong sister to marry, his father's death, in a comic confession that keeps missing the point.
Journey by Moonlight
Mihály, a Hungarian businessman on honeymoon in Italy, gets on the wrong train in Venice, leaves his wife behind and drifts back towards the past and the friends of his youth.
Henry IV
A play: twenty years after a fall from his horse at a costume pageant, a wealthy Italian still believes he is the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and his old circle arrives with a doctor to try to cure him.
Dom Casmurro
Bento Santiago, an embittered old lawyer in Rio de Janeiro, sets down the story of his love for his childhood sweetheart Capitu, and of his suspicion that she betrayed him.
The Charterhouse of Parma
Fabrice del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman, runs off to fight for Napoleon at Waterloo, then makes his way through the court intrigues of Parma, love affairs and a famous imprisonment.
The Time Regulation Institute
Hayri İrdal, a man of no particular ability, tells how he came to help run an institute devoted to setting all the clocks of Istanbul to the same time.
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Felix Krull, the handsome son of a bankrupt Rhineland champagne maker, sets out to make his way through Paris hotels and European society on charm, mimicry and imposture.
The Aspern Papers
An American editor takes rooms in a crumbling Venetian palazzo, posing as a lodger, to get his hands on the love letters a dead Romantic poet wrote to the very old woman who lives there with her niece.
Murphy
Murphy, an Irishman in London who likes nothing better than to tie himself naked in a rocking chair, is pushed by Celia, the prostitute who loves him, into finding a job, and finds one in a mental hospital.
Colored Television
Jane, a mixed-race novelist in Los Angeles, has spent ten years on a serious book about mixed-race America, and broke and house-sitting for a famous friend, she decides to try selling a television show instead.
The Women at the Pump
In a small Norwegian coastal town, the gossip at the pump follows Oliver, a sailor who came home crippled, and everyone else whose business is everyone's business.