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The Flame of Life
Hardcover
Classic FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781434482259
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Dec 5 2025
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.73
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Set in a Venice veiled in beauty and decay, this introspective novel follows an aging writer desperate to recapture vitality and inspiration through a fervent affair with a younger woman. As their relationship deepens, it becomes a crucible of conflicting desires-artistic, erotic, and existential. The narrative plunges into the psychology of obsession, exploring the tension between physical decline and the timeless hunger for beauty and meaning. With lush, lyrical prose and unflinching emotional intensity, it stands as a provocative meditation on love, mortality, and the artist's eternal struggle against oblivion.
Gabriele d'Annunzio, born Gaetano Rapagnetta (1863-1938) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, womanizer and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as figure-head of the Italian Fascist movement and mentor of Benito Mussolini. His most famous literary works included: The Child of Pleasure, The Intruder, The Maidens of the Rocks, and The Flame of Life (Il Fuoco).
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