War by Luigi Pirandello

    Luigi Pirandello,1867-1936, Italian playwright and novelist.

    The plots in War were displayed in a sinuous, accelarating and heightening way with a little excessive details.  I was terribly stunned by the last plot more owing to the affections bursted by characters than due to its serpentine contrivance.

    The woman' only son would be sent to the front and asked her to go and see him off.  She was not pitied in the carriage of the train, and as a result, she felt certain that all those explanations would not have aroused even