Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_and_the_Puppet

Release date is 2016-02-02

Woman and puppet -- The new pleasure -- Byblis -- Lêda -- Immortal love -- The artist triumphant -- The Hill of Horsel.

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"Woman and Puppet, Etc." by Pierre Louÿs is a novel written in 1898. Set during carnival in Seville, it tells the story of don Mateo Diaz and his turbulent relationship with Conchita Pérez, a bewitching young Andalusian woman. Through cycles of attraction and rejection, flirtation and jealousy, don Mateo finds himself manipulated for fourteen months before a violent confrontation changes everything. The novel explores obsessive passion and psychological manipulation in a tale that has inspired numerous opera and film adaptations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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