This novel is a real and much introspective inquiry into the suicide of a woman in the mid-fifties in Naples. Ermanno Rea present with a rare literary talent the city and the soul of Naples at that time. There are the scars of years of postwar plunder the port city by the American army ... There is also the environment in which his characters evolve: the Communist Party. And the fate of this woman, a free woman too ... Here are some excerpts: I who write this diary, which strives me to continue this investigation into the past, when I really understood-lucidité- included with the theorem of the aquarium? I must admit that all the time that I lived not was enough. Elementary geometry: that the snake hardest to swallow. (...) Evidence seems banal, below the threshold of our intelligence, while on the contrary it is extraordinarily above. At the time, even a simple evening dress could be transformed into count. The dress was low-cut, it's daring, the evening dress is a sign of moral laxity, it was a bourgeois artifice, perverse, which reveals the hidden part and shameful that there is in you. Especially if the woman who wears a tumultuous past and suspect such as Francesca. Then suddenly, on the bottom of this gigantic apotheosis of this hymn tremolos in honor of Soviet triumph, something terrible came down from heaven: a sudden devastating lightning. We learned that Stalin (Stalin our) had been a ruthless dictator. It was a heartbreaking drama. We left speechless: stupor was almost stronger than pain, in a certain sense it even lessened, it acts on it as an anesthetic.
