The late Mattia Pascal and fame of history: fakes and fame that become historical reality

This assay is a complaint about a use and abuse that we have usually believed and this phenomenological custom is connatural to humankind, and it had used and described, with irony from Luigi Pirandello at his The late Mattia Pascal; protagonist of this romance is Mattia Pascal a guy that is disappeared from a city and everybody think that he is died, and he said to end of this romance: “It is very beautiful bring flowers on my tomb”; this is romance is a masterwork, because it tells truly custom that alone very few follow; this is the historical fakes and common morality, this last is principal motive to follow and they followed these historical fakes. Mattia, protagonist is life and when he is exiting from cemetery somebody asks to him: “Are Mattia Pascal?” and he answered: “The late Mattia Pascal”, because I am died in conformity of common opinion, then I am life it is very low indifferent, because important is alone common judgement, then is more common opinion is valid no, certainly, other. This phenomenon, that has showed the idiocy and opportunism of very much fake historical men, has tells fakes and untrue historical truth. Everybody has believed to these fakes more to disinterest than other. After these fake historical men other has caught these fakes and have followed it, because to begin a examination of these presumed truth is very difficult and tiring, it is more best follow the fakes than search the truth. Everybody follow this criterion is unworthy to write the history or philosophy or other. Then when you must read history you must always consider that these presumed truth is alone opinion of historical man then it isn’t you must consider that it is opinion, no certainly the truth; as common opinion has said that Mattia Pascal has died. And I want end this assay through a sentence of Pirandello: “Keep in your mind that during your life you will meet very much mask and few face”, this is you will meet very much fake men and very few sincere persons.

Alessandro Lusana