The Faithful Lover by Massimo Bontempelli cracks the mirror of reality

  The Faithful Lover (1953) is a collection of short stories by Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli, the father of realismo magico (magical realism). This genre works as an evolved form of traditional French surrealism. Bontempelli has commented on the writing style by saying, “the real norm of the art of narration is to describe the dream as