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A Life by Italo Svevo (Author)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alfonso the bank clerk wants to be a poet and seems to be falling in love with Annetta, the vain and arrogant daughter of his boss. But the emptiness of his attempts at both writing and love lead to an ironic and painful conclusion. A Life is the gruelling tale of the frustrated existence of a bank cler ...Show more
A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at h ...Show more
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last' A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S as a form of therapy. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his fingers, he explores the importa ...Show more
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo; William Weaver (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Known for inspiring James Joyce's Leopold Bloom from Ulysses, Zeno Cosini is the bumbling yet charming alter ego of Italo Svevo, who here lays bare a hilarious litany of neuroticisms about his health, friendships, family and women. Having submitted himself to Freudian psychoanalysis, the narrator keeps ...Show more
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
The modern Italian classic discovered and championed by James Joyce, "Zeno's Conscience" is a marvel of psychological insight, published here in a fine new translation by William Weaver-the first in more than seventy years. Italo Svevo's masterpiece tells the story of a hapless, doubting, guilt-ridden m ...Show more
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