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Zeno's Conscience Italo Svevo

Zeno's Conscience By Italo Svevo

Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo


$16.99
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Summary

A saga of a family and an account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his business or make sense of his private life.

Zeno's Conscience Summary

Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo

This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a family and a hilarious account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his business or make sense of his private life.

A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination ZENO'S CONSCIENCE has provoked enormous affection in its readers both in Italian and English since its first publication in the 1920s.

About Italo Svevo

Italo Svevo (1861-1928) lived most of his life in Trieste, now part of Italy, but then a port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ZENO'S CONSCIENCE is his greatest work, seen by James Joyce as one of the century's handful of masterpieces. His other novels include AS A MAN GROWS OLDER and A LIFE.

William Weaver is most famously the translator of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.

Additional information

GOR001619626
9780140187748
014018774X
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20020926
464
N/A
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