Italo Svevo (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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As a young man Italo Svevo wrote two novels: Una vita (1892; A Life, 1963) and Senilità (1898; As a Man Grows Older, 1932). Both books were ignored by readers and critics, and Svevo confined himself to writing essays and stories until his novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923; Confessions of Zeno, 1930) won great acclaim and awakened interest in his earlier work.
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Although Italo Svevo received little attention until the end of his life, he came to be seen as one of the major modernists of the...
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