The Paradox at the Window

F. Stringfellow Barr reviews Luigi Pirandello, by Walter Starkie, and Shoot! by Luigi Pirandello, at VQR Online. [link fixed -ed.]

"'Shoot!' purports to be the diary of a cinematograph operator, the observer at the window of life again. This Serafino Gubbio, like Mattia Pascal, is the incarnation of detachment and the incarnation of Pirandello. Pirandello is un-Futuristic, un-Fascist, in these doubts about life, these doubts about doubts themselves."

See Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter, in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 59.