SOURCE: "Life and Form in Pirandello's Short Prose: An Existential Atmosphere," in Revista/Review Interamericana, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1979-80, pp. 615-21.
In the following essay, Finch perceives in Pirandello's short fiction a tension between the spontaneity of life and the boundaries—both social and psychological—that humans impose upon themselves.
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