L'infedele
By Matilde Serao
Cover: Neapolitan Street Vendor by Salvatore De Gregorio (1859-1928) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Three people make up this love story: Paolo Herz, a southern Italian man of pleasure in his late thirties, Luisa Cima, and the capricious Cherie. Serao follows the pull between them with a sharp eye for the manners of elegant society; the volume also holds three shorter stories, Dissidio, L'attesa and Zig-Zag.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.