SOURCE: "Appendix: Pirandello on Verga," in Verga's Milanese Tales, by Olga Ragusa, S. F. Vanni, 1964, pp. 106-26.
In the following excerpt, part of a speech that was first presented to the Royal Academy of Italy celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of I Malavoglia in 1931, Pirandello investigates the concept of reality in art and takes issue with the claim that Verga wrote objective, realist fiction.
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