Luigi Pirandello 
The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio 

Serafino is a typical Pirandellian anti-hero, a spectator rather than a participant in the tragi-comedy of human existence. Indeed he has the perfect job for it, that of a film cameraman. Serafino is an observer, an impersonal tool of a new industry based on make-believe. All he has to do is turn the handle of his camera and watch. He has no part in what is going on and is so removed from life that the mauling of an actor by a tiger cannot deflect him from filming the action. The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio is set in Rome circa 1915, partly on a film set, partly in the city.

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Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, (25 September 1889 – 28 February 1930) was a Scottish writer and translator from French and Italian. He is most famous for his English translation of most of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past. His translations from Italian include several novels by Luigi Pirandello.