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"Zeno's Confessions" is a novel that interweaves psychology and literature. The masterpiece of Italian author Italo Svivo. Through the perspective of the protagonist Zeno, the novel deeply explores people's fantasies, illusions, impressions, thinking, consciousness and behaviors, revealing the crises hidden under the appearance of reliability and the anxiety that harasses people's existence. The structure of the novel is quite ingenious. The author pretends to be a psychiatrist and announces the privacy of his patient Zeno in the preface. Because the aging Zeno no longer followed the doctor's orders to write his memoirs, the doctor's psychological analysis was forced to stop. In retaliation, the doctor disclosed Zeno's medical records. In this lengthy autobiography, the protagonist Zeno introspects in an extremely serious and detailed manner, and at the same time full of pain and self-deprecation.