A Very Old Man: Stories Svevo Italo
A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, including five chapters of his landmark work Zeno's Conscience.A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an…
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A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, including five chapters of his landmark work Zeno's Conscience.A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine writer Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, when the international success of Zeno's Conscience in 1923 had put an end to decades of literary neglect and set his imagination free. Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start--aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and plain foolishness of the bourgeois pater familias--even as memories of the recent, terrible slaughter of World War I and the contemporary rise of Italian fascism also cast a shadow over the book's pages. It opens with The Contract, in which Zeno's manager, the
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