Unmissable and recent monograph: the most important one today. Sober and highly documented: I warmly recommend it to you, and it is not even excessively technical.
Thanks for the report, now I know with more certainty how to spend the about 40 euros I have available, on a book, moreover one that deals with music and from what you say, well-written, it's never money wasted.
Schumann (perhaps, as is also specified in the introduction of this book, perceived and made to be perceived incorrectly through other biographies) is one of those figures who attracts me more than any others.