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Italo Svevo

Born

in Trieste (formerly of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Italy

December 19, 1861

Died

September 13, 1928

Genre

Fiction, Theatre

Influences

Arthur Schopenhauer, Karl Marx, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Robert Musil ...more

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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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	Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, William Weaver (Translator), Claudio Carini (Narratore), Beryl de Zoete (Translator), Michael Hoffman (Preface) 3.78 avg rating — 25,238 ratings — published 1923 — 597 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As a Man Grows Older (New York Review Books Classics) by Italo Svevo, James Lasdun (Introduction), Beryl de Zoete (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 3,422 ratings — published 1898 — 244 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Una vita 3.49 avg rating — 1,354 ratings — published 1892 — 152 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl 3.12 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 1926 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo, Tim Parks (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.40 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 1927 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corto viaggio sentimentale 3.39 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1949 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La coscienza di Zeno. Senilità. Una vita 3.80 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2002 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La coscienza di Zeno / Senilità 3.80 avg rating — 246 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I racconti 3.72 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1985 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cömert Şarap by Italo Svevo, Ersan Üldes (Translator) 3.31 avg rating — 86 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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“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

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“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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