Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
by Italo Svevo, William Weaver (Translator)
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Italo Svevo, whose real name was Ettore Schmitz, was born in Trieste in 1861. He was educated in Trieste and in a commercial school in Germany and returned to his birthplace to begin a business career that he pursued successfully until his death. He published three novels (at his own expense): Una vita (1892; English translation: A Life ), Senilità (1898; English translation: Emilio’s Carnival ; also translated under the title As a Man Grows Older ), and La coscienza di Zeno (1923; English translation: Zeno’s Conscience ; also translated under the title Confessions of Zeno ). After his first two novels were ignored, Svevo considered giving up writing and devoting himself full-time to business. Aiming to improve his English, he fell under the tutelage of James Joyce, twenty years his junior. Svevo read early portions of Dubliners , and Joyce read Svevo’s two novels and encouraged him to take up writing again. When Svevo completed Zeno’s Conscience , Joyce arranged to have it published in France, where Svevo was dubbed “the Italian Proust.” He soon emerged from obscurity in Italy, and his rank as a major writer was already established when he died in a car accident in 1928.
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- Title
- Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
- Author
- Italo Svevo, William Weaver (Translator)
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- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used:Good
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- ISBN 10
- 0375727760
- ISBN 13
- 9780375727764
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003-02-04
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