About the book: 2011 / "Notes of a Cameraman" was published in 1916, during the era of silent cinema. The hero of the novel by Serafino Gubbio is a cameraman. Gradually he turns into one with his movie camera, tries to be the same as it, a mechanism - passionless, wordless, indifferent to people and things, he wants to overcome passions, worries, fears and even love. But is a living person capable of this? Can he become a thing, mute, emotionless, soulless? And if it can, then at what cost? The novel is being published in translation into Russian for the first time. Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) - Italian playwright, short story writer and novelist, Nobel Prize winner (1934).