Italo Svevo

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Italo Svevo


Born
in Trieste (formerly of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Italy
December 19, 1861

Died
September 13, 1928

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Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.

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A Perfect Hoax

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Corto viaggio sentimentale

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La coscienza di Zeno. Senil...

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La coscienza di Zeno / Seni...

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I racconti

3.71 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1985 — 25 editions
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L'assassinio di via Belpogg...

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“You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide. ”
Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness”
Italo Svevo

“It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. ”
Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

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