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This book can not and should not be judged from the ordinary point of view: the title novel is subjectively justified in that the sentiment which led the hero of these pages to write them is certainly not different from that which prompted many contemporary authors to express their thoughts and ideas To express feelings in an often self-biographical form. Dostoyevsky's " guilt and atonement, " Zola's " Bette humaine " and Gabriele d'Annunzio's " Giovanni Episcopo " and " l'Innocente " are the last examples of this pathological literature, where the genius of the authors rises to a deep intuition of morbid phases of consciousness Art attains the reputation of truth.