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Italo Svevo, 1927 sculpture by Ruggero Rovan, the only extant bust of Svevo from when the artist was still alive. Svevo, along with Luigi Pirandello, is considered a prominent figure of early 20th century Italian literature, and has had an important influence on later generations of the country's writers. Though only recognised for his literary ...
Decadentism. Italo Svevo (born Dec. 19, 1861, Trieste, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]—died Sept. 13, 1928, Motta di Livenza, Italy) was an Italian novelist and short-story writer, a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy. Svevo (whose pseudonym means “Italian Swabian”) was the son of a German-Jewish glassware merchant and an Italian ...
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Italo Svevo, pseudonimo di Aron Hector Schmitz (Trieste, 19 dicembre 1861 – Motta di Livenza, 13 settembre 1928), è stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo italiano. Cresciuto in un contesto mitteleuropeo , ha tratto il suo pseudonimo dalle due culture, italiana e tedesca, che formarono la sua educazione.
Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923 ...
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Italo Svevo was born Ettore Schmitz in Trieste in 1861. His father was a successful businessman. Svevo was one of sixteen children, though only eight of the children (including Svevo) survived into adulthood. When he was twelve his father sent him to study in Germany where he became fluent in German. While there he also became interested in ...
Mar 25, 2002 · The return of a great writer.Zeno’s Conscience By Italo Svevo translated by William Weaver (Everyman’s Library, 437 pp., $20) Emilio’s Carnival (Senilita) By Italo Svevo translated by Beth ...
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Aug 3, 2018 · Svevo’s admiration for Joyce materializes in proposing a conference on his mentor to be held in Via Borgotasso. Despite his well-known bashfulness, many hesitations, and a tormented writing process – seven different drafts – finally Svevo gives his lecture on March 8, 1927 (see Italo Svevo, Scritti su Joyce), in a crowded room. The essay ...
