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A 1979 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, tells the story of a reader trying to read the book If One Winter's Night a Traveler. Each chapter is divided into two parts.
The disturbing and emotionally exhausting story tells about a painter who, with her artistic passion, opposed the expectations imposed on her by her parents.
An autobiographical novella written in 1940 (later revised), set in the early 1930s in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. The work is a nostalgic, sensual, and vivid depiction of the bohemian life of a poor American immigrant in Paris.
The book contains chronologically arranged stories published during Kafka's lifetime, except for the last four, which he approved for publication but, unfortunately, did not live to see publication.
The work is based on a true event that occurred in Spain in 1933: Aurora Rodriguez killed her daughter Hildegart, a famous fighter for women's emancipation and a cult figure on the political scene of the time.