One, None and One Hundred Thousand is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer
Luigi Pirandello. It is Pirandello's last novel; his son later said that
it took "more than 15 years" to write. In an autobiographical letter,
published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the "...bitterest
of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life: Moscarda
one, no one and one hundred thousand." The pages of the unfinished novel
remained on Pirandello's desk for years and he would occasionally take
out extracts and insert them into other works only to return, later, to
the novel in a sort of uninterrupted compositive circle. Finally
finished, Uno, Nessuno e Centomila came out in episodes between December
1925 and June 1926 in the magazine Fiera Letteraria.