 Less flashy and more isolated than D'Annunzio, and close to the French symbolists, Pascoli redefined poetry as a means of clairvoyance to regain the purity of things.Finally, the third period, which can be seen as a postlude to Decadentism, is marked by the voices of Italo Svevo, Luigi Pirandello and the Crepusculars.Svevo, with his novel "Zeno's Conscience", took the idea of sickness to its logical conclusion, while Pirandello proceeded to the extreme disintegration of the self with works such as "The Late Mattia Pascal", "Six Characters in Search of an Author" and "One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand".