Non si sa come was written by Pirandello almost on the spur of the moment between the end of July and September 1934, during a holiday spent in Castiglioncello. In a famous interview given a few months after completing the work, Pirandello proposed a privileged interpretation of the text: ‘Crime belongs to nature, but the really dramatic moment is that of justice, and it is all the more dramatic because the court is invisible, that is, in the conscience’.
