“Notes of a Cameraman” was published in 1916, during the era of silent films. 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) is an Italian playwright, short story writer and novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (1934).