The Late Mattia Pascal (by Luigi Pirandello)

(Amazon UK link) I had never heard of Luigi Pirandello. He was an Italian writer, best-known, apparently, for his plays. He was born in 1867 and his novel ‘The Late Mattia Pascal’ was written in 1904. It was allocated for this month’s local reading group, and I acquired a translated copy of this book for my Kindle. I didn’t realise at first that it was published 120 years ago. As I read the first few chapters, I vaguely thought it was set in around the 1950s. 
The novel is told in the first person...