- Hardcover: 178 pages
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press; 1st American Ed edition (15 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0910395578
- ISBN-13: 978-0910395571
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,694,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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, it is appropriate that this book was written by his wife. She makes use of his correspondence, journals and other unpublished material. In addition, the book documents his friendship with James Joyce, quoting little-known Joyce sources. It also includes, as an appendix, a publication of a lecture by Svevo on Joyce.
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Confessions of Zeno...
23 Jan 2001
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One of the ironies of Italo Svevo's "Confessions of Zeno" is that the impulsive, undisciplined Zeno is supposed to have composed such elegant, disciplined prose. The life of Svevo -- actually the Austrian Ettore Schmitz, a writer of Italian educated in German, a businessman who hated business and a novelist not known to the world as such until James Joyce declared him Italy's best -- was rife with similar contradictions. In "Memoir of Italo Svevo" his widow, Livia Veneziani Svevo, offers herself as one key to his surprising success. Svevo began courting Livia, a distant cousin, when she was 18 years old and just out of convent school and he was 31 and working in a bank; once she stopped worshiping his literary genius, she began to see him as a man in pain. In simple, compelling language, competently translated by Isabel Quigly, Mrs. Svevo gives readers exactly as much as they need to move from one Svevo letter or diary entry to the next, and she reveals as little as possible about herself. The Svevo she depicts was, indeed, a brilliant, kind and misunderstood man. Her husband's correspondence with people like Joyce and the French critic Valery Larbaud is certainly interesting, but nonetheless, throughout this memoir, the voice of the real Livia, a woman of obvious character and the wife of -- let's face it -- a severe neurotic, is sorely missed.
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