The pages of the unfinished novel remained on Pirandello 's desk for years .
Pirandello would occasionally take out extracts and insert them into other works only to return , later , to the novel in a sort of uninterrupted compositive circle .
The pages of the unfinished novel remained on Pirandello 's desk for years and he would occasionally take out extracts and insert them into other works only to return , later , to the novel in a sort of uninterrupted compositive circle .