SOURCE: A review of The Medals, and Other Stories, in The New York Times Book Review, May 14, 1939, p. 7.

In this review, Hutchison praises The Medals, and Other Stories, noting that Pirandello's work is distinct from that of other short fiction writers.

Strange and eerie, as is everything written by Luigi Pirandello, fabricator of that compelling drama Six Characters in Search of an Author, and of As You Desire Me, which also was put upon the screen, this new culling [The Medals, and Other Stories] from his two hundred short stories is as provocative as all that has gone before. For this winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is not kin to any other writer of fiction, either in the past or in the present. He belongs to no school; his works, whether short or long, whether plays or stories, cannot be pigeon-holed. Pirandello is neither realist nor...