Italo Svevo
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Zeno Corsini, a neurotic Italian businessman is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist. He relates his interminable attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the beautiful yet unresponsive Ada, his unexpected, and unexpectedly happy, marriage to Ada's homely sister Augusta, and his affair with a shrill-voiced aspiring singer. Relating these misadventures with wry wit and a perspicacity at once unblinking and compassionate, this...
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Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina-except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins as a comedy of infatuated misunderstanding ends in tragedy, as Emilio's jealous persistence in his folly-against his friends' and devoted sister's advice, and even...
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SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2019
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Italiano
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Il grossista italiano di mezza età Zeno cerca senza molto successo di smettere di fumare, ma nulla sembra riuscire ad aiutarlo. Il suo psichiatra gli suggerisce di scrivere la storia della sua vita per far luce sull'origine della sua dipendenza. Mentre lo fa, i ricordi di una vita fallita e irrisolta si riversano su di lui. Con una copiosa dose di autoironia, ripensa al complicato rapporto con il padre, analizza il suo matrimonio, segnato dall'infatuazione...
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Saga Egmont International
Pub. Date
2020
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Italiano
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Mario Samigli, impiegato sessantenne con velleità artistiche, spera ancora di poter riuscire a raggiungere la notorietà ed essere finalmente considerato un vero scrittore. L'incapacità di saper guardare in faccia la realtà lo rende vulnerabile e un bersaglio perfetto per lo scherzo, la burla del titolo, architettato a suo danno da un perfido collega di lavoro. L'autoinganno misto all'inettitudine sono le parole chiave che definiscono la personalità...
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Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo's charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist. Here are Zeno's interminable...
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New York Review Books
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[2021]
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English
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"A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine writer Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, when the international success of Zeno's Conscience in 1923 had put an end to decades of literary neglect and set his imagination free. Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start--aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and...
