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Italo Svevo

Works by Italo Svevo

by Italo Svevo
Original title: La coscienza di Zeno

Zeno Cosini is an elderly businessman who turns to the new science of psychoanalysis to try to rid himself of a series of physical and mental ailments. His analyst makes him delve into his memory and write down his impressions of his past. (more...)

As a Man Grows Older [Buy Direct]

by Italo Svevo
Translated by Beryl De Zoete
Original title: Senilità

Considered by some critics to be Svevo’s masterpiece, more consummate and balanced than The Confessions of Zeno, this novel had no success when first published, passing completely unnoticed. Set in the author’s beloved home city of Trieste, (more...)

A Life [Buy Direct]

by Italo Svevo
Original title: Una vita

Alfonso Nitti is a young man with a strong literary vocation who has come from the country to Trieste to work in a bank. Meeting Annetta, his employer’s daughter, opens the doors of the sophisticated world to him and, sharing a passion for literature, (more...)

Zeno's Conscience (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) [Buy Direct]

by Italo Svevo and Elizabeth Hardwick
Translated by William Weaver

Emilio's Carnival [Buy Direct]

by Italo Svevo and Victor Brombert
Translated by Beth Archer Brombert

As a Man Grows Older (Sun and Moon Classics, No 25) [Buy Direct]

by Italo Svevo and Eduardo Roditi
Translated by Beryl De Zoete

The Hoax

by Italo Svevo
Translated by B. de Zoete
Original title: Una burla riuscita

Short Sentimental Journey & Other Stories. The Hoax/Story of the Old Man & the Pretty Girl/Generous Wine/the Mother/ Argo & His Master/Short Sentimental Journey/Death

by Italo Svevo
Translated by B de et al Zoete
Original title: Various