As a Man Grows Older (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aron Hector Schmitz
- First Published: 1898
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1890’s
- Setting: Trieste, Austria
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Antiheroes, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, Austria or Austrians
- Locales: Trieste, Austria
Characters Discussed
Emilio Brentani (eh-MIHL-ih-oh brehn-TAH-nee), a clerk in an insurance office. The Italian title Senilità (senility) must refer to him but cannot be taken literally, for he is only thirty-five years old; metaphorically, it seems not inappropriate, because his lack of energy and enterprise suits a much older man. He is content to live in a shabby apartment with his pale sister and “to go cautiously through life, avoiding all its perils, but also renouncing all its pleasures.” He neither pursues a literary career (he has published one novel) nor...
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