SOURCE: A review of Command, and I Will Obey You, in Bestsellers, July 15, 1969, p. 161.

In the following excerpt, Archer regards the stones collected in Command, and I Will Obey You as experimentations that might be developed into lengthier works .

[The short stories collected in Command, and I Will Obey You] by the master of living Italian novelists, suggest themselves as experimentations, as "kernels" which might be developed into lengthier plots, though doubtless they are meant to be an end in themselves. In "The Chase," one of the best, a husband compares his wife's personality with his boyhood memory of a bird hunted by his father. The intangible yet powerful quality of wildness which emanated from the bird had made such a lasting impression on the boy that years later, recognizing something of the same quality in a young woman, he married her only to see this elusive inner...