Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina-except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins as a comedy of infatuated misunderstanding ends in tragedy, as Emilio's jealous persistence in his folly-against his friends' and devoted sister's advice, and even his own best knowledge-leads to the loss of the one person who, too late, he realizes he truly loves. Marked by deep humanity and earthy humor, by psychological insight and an elegant simplicity of style, As a Man Grows Older (Senilità, in Italian; the English title was the suggestion of Svevo's great friend and admirer, James Joyce) is a brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation.

As a Man Grows Older (Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Italo, Svevo

Contemporary

Penguin Classics

A bank clerk torn between routine and art, between true love and its impostor

A Life (Modern Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

<p>As a form of therapy, Zeno's doctor advises him to write his memoirs. The patient reconstructs the events in his life into a palatable reality founded upon compromise and rationalization.</p>

Confession of Zeno V63

Vintage

The sequel to 'The Confessions of Zeno', which was only partially completed before Svevo's untimely death.

Further Confessions of Zeno

History & Criticism

Univ. Of California Pr.

Zeno's Conscience (European Classics)

Classics

Northwestern University Press,U.S.

<p>This 20th century masterpiece uses the traditional form of autobiography to explore some very untraditional themes. Under the guidance of a psychoanalyst an old man looks back over his life, exploring his motives and trying to make sense of things, but when he decides to abandon the treatment, his reminiscences are published by Doctor S as an act of revenge against the patient who has frustrated the doctor's own desire for complete understanding. In laying bare the disturbing power relations between therapist and subject, Svevo explores the dynamics of identity and self-knowledge in ways which link him with his great contemporaries, Joyce, Proust and Musil.</p>

Zeno's Conscience (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

Genre Fiction

Everyman"s Library

Mein Müssiggang - Erzählungen

Rowohlt Verlag

Italo Svevo Samuel Spiers Schüler: Die Texte Italo Svevos und seines Bruders Elio Schmitz über ihre Jugend in Deutschland. Mit unveröffentlichten ... Samuel Spiers (Livre en allemand)

Una vita

Mondadori

La Coscienza Di Zeno

Einaudi

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