Zeno's Conscience: a novel
by Svevo, Italo
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 attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the…
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- Full title :Zeno's Conscience : a novel / Italo Svevo ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
Summary
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 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, Zeno's Conscience is a miracle of psychological realism.
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781101970225, 1101970227
- oclc:ocn904281178
- LC Classification:PQ4841.C482
- Dewey Decimal:853.8
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