Pirandello, Luigi - Elizabeth Hart (essay date 1935)
Elizabeth Hart (essay date 1935)
SOURCE: "Luigi Pirandello, 1934 Nobel Prize Winner," in New York Herald Tribune Books, January 6, 1935, p. 3.
[In the following review, Hart hails Better Think Twice about It as a testament to Pirandello's skill as a short story writer, ]
It is probably to the Nobel Prize judges that we owe most of our thanks for getting another batch of Pirandello stories so soon after the appearance of that superb collection The Naked Truth, but a very special bow should be reserved for the publishers, the translators, or whoever selected the contents of [Better Think Twice about It]. The prestige of a literary prize winner can be counted on—for a short time—to bring a certain section of the public running to buy whatever is issued over his name, no matter how inferior and unrepresentative it may be, and more than one publisher has gathered his rosebuds by delving hastily into the past work of...
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