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Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian: [ˈiːtalo ˈzvɛːvo]), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
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.
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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.
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), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.
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James Joyce and Italo Svevo: the story of a friendship Despite the difference in their ages and backgrounds, the two were both multi-lingual polymaths, renowned for their wit, dedicated but ...
Mar 25, 2002 · Claire Messud reviews four books by the Triestine writer Italo Svevo, best known for his novel Zeno's Conscience. She explores his themes of smoking, psychoanalysis, desire, and irony in his fiction and autobiography.
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He started writing while working at the bank and published many articles in the Indipendente newspaper. He published his first novel in 1892 (the year his father died) at his own expense but it was completely ignored by the critics as was his second novel, Senilità (As a Man Grows Older).
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