The Killing Commendatore (set of 2 books: Book 1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Book 2. The Metaphor That Slips Away)

"From May of that year, before the next year I lived in the mountains ..." The picturesque, quiet place ideal for creativity. A modest one -story building in the European style, quite spacious for a bachelor, belonged to the artist famous in Japan.
Everything would be peaceful and calm if it weren’t for the picture of the "killing of the Commander", found in the attic, if not for the ringing of a Buddhist bell at night, if not for a strange crypt that arose from under a stone mound in the middle of the thicket, if It would not be a meeting with the aesthet of the Mansika, who asked for fabulous money to write a portrait, first his own, and then possibly his daughter, if not for an attempt to understand himself.
"It turns out the beginning of everything that is happening around me was that I brought this picture to the world? And thereby opened the circle? "
This picture turned the life of the protagonist and influenced everyone who saw her. She created another reality in our world. How is it all possible?