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Italo Svevo
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel…
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A playful account of one man’s life in early twentieth century Trieste
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Svevo
This is a memoir of Italo Svevo, who died in 1928 and who is the author of The Confessions of Svevo . As Svevo’s novels are largely concerned with marriage…
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"Senilita" e il secondo romanzo di Italo Svevo. Il romanzo apparve sull'Indipendente a puntate nel 1898 e fu pubblicato in volume, a spese dell'autore, nello stesso anno ma senza ottenere…
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Senilita from Italo Svevo. Scrittore e drammaturgo italiano (1861-1928).
Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to 40. He gains a new lease of life…
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Livia Veneziani Svevo
Elizabeth Schachter
Italo Svevo is acknowledged as a writer of international stature alongside his contemporaries Kafka, Proust and Joyce. These essays focus on his three novels, Una Vita , Senilita and La…
Peter Davies
An examination of the novels of Italo Svevo. Peter Davies uncovers the reasons for the slow growth of Svevo’s reputation after he was ‘discovered’ by James Joyce in Trieste. He…
Brian Moloney
This is the first book in English on the friendship that sprang up between these two major writers and the effects on both of that friendship.
Giuliana Minghelli
Giuliana Minghelli uses Italo Svevo’s parodic Darwinian fable of the prehistoric encounter between the weak and ‘unfinished’ man and an incommensurable other to reassess his eccentric contribution to 20th century…
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In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo - who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age - parodies elements of his own life and offers…
Svevo Brooks
Horace is twice as big as any cottontail in the warren. Instead of bounding, he somersaults. Instead of talking, he grunts. The bunnies tease Horace mercilessly and call him Dumb…
Italo Svevo,Frederika Randall
A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno’s Conscience.
A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished…
Emmeline Ceron
Ties of influence and rejection govern the relationship between, on the one hand, Robert Musil and Italo Svevo and, on the other, the immortalized Goethe. The former were two major…
This book examines Italo Svevo, Giorgio Pressburger and Giuliana Morandini, all make use of individual ‘infected’ or suppressed voices within their texts which unfold through illness, silence and identity to…
In this novel, Svevo tells the story of the amorous entanglement of Emilio, a failed writer already old at 35, and Angiolina, a seductively beautiful but promiscuous young woman. A…
Luca Rebeggiani
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Italienische u. Sardische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 1,0, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als einen fast perfekten Roman…
Giuseppe Stellardi
The first of a two volume set of books which looks at the work of all those who wish to understand the important of Italo Svevo’s work
The second of a two volume set of books which looks at the work of all those who wish to understand the important of Italo Svevo’s work
Alberto Godioli
This book investigates the clash between social uniformity and personal anomalies as a key to understanding the functions of laughter in four major Italian authors from the early twentieth century…
A saga of a family and an account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his…
Laura Dorfer
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Italienische u. Sardische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 1,3, Universitat Siegen (Romanische Literaturwissenschaft - franzoesische und italienische Literatur ), Veranstaltung: Italo Svevo…
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Italo Svevo,Ettore Schmitz
‘Italy’s first modernist … a marvellous writer, unjustly neglected. Svevo is a master.’ - The New Yorker
The cult classic discovered and championed by James Joyce, Confessions of Zeno is…
Italo Svevo,Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
This new translation conveys to the English reader with accuracy and art the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine’s colourful early life.
Deborah Amberson
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature investigates the central nexus in the work of Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda and considers it as evidence of a…
Margarita Mayzlina
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Italienische u. Sardische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 1.3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit hat zum Ziel, die Figur und…
Simona Bianconi
Simona Bianconi explores the creative process of writing, its communicative aspects and the traces of the writer himself in his creations, as well as the effect writing has on the…
L'invenzione letteraria pu dare vita a un secondo scrittore, a sua volta all'opera. A sua volta colui che comunica al di l della parola, che si assume l'importante responsabilit della…
Irwin Epstein
Neither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A "coming-of-old-age story," it speaks to an audience…
