That does sound good.
I'm reading The Late Mattia Pascal by Pirandello; the gist of the plot is that the hero is fed up with his life, his mother having squandered his father's fortune and him reduced to living with a depressed wife and a mother-in-law who blames him for everything. One day he takes the money he was supposed to spend on his mother's funeral and runs away to America - except it's not enough to do that so he stops at Monte Carlo and tries his hand at the roulette wheel. Time for a change of fortune (of sorts) and the protagonist heads back home with a large sum of money, his exultation tempered by the fact that no money will make his family like him and that most of it will be wiped out if he wants to buy back the holdings of his youth.
Luckily, on his way home he sees in the paper that a body has been found in the stream near his house and has been identified as his own. Seizing the chance randomly given Mattia Pascal disembarks from the train, changes his appearance and habits and begins to see what life is like as a man with no acquaintances but lots of money.
The book is mainly concerned with identity and what happens to yours if you abandon all the things you thought anchored it. The plot seems to me - at least up to the point I've read - to be very similar to that of Antonioni's film The Passenger - wonder if he'd read it...
