Italo Svevo

Italo Svevo’s early novel Senilità (1898) remained unknown for many years until James Joyce encountered the novelist in Trieste and came to admire Senilità as a preeminent modern Italian novel. Joyce helped to launch Svevo’s career, and years later Svevo achieved great fame with his masterpiece, Confessions of Zeno. In Senilità, Svevo tells the story of the amorous entanglement of Emilio, a failed writer already old at thirty-five, and Angiolina, a seductively beautiful but promiscuous young woman. A study in jealousy and self-torment, the novel traces the intoxicating effect of a narcissistic and amoral woman on an indecisive daydreamer who vacillates between guilt and moral smugness. The novel is suffused with a tragic sense of existence, and the unbreachable distance between one consciousness and another. Svevo’s unmistakably modern voice subtly captures rapid shifts in mood and intention, exploiting irony, indirection, and multiple points of view to reveal Emilio’s increasing anguish as he comes to recognize the dissonance between himself and his world.

U romani "Samopiznannja Dzeno" (1923) golovnij geroj, pidprijemets iz Trijesta, pishe spogadi dlja svogo psikhoanalitika. Dzeno Kozini ne lishe zgaduje pro te, scho bulo z nim kolis, a spovidujetsja, doslidzhuje sebe samogo. Rozpovid vedetsja vid pershoji osobi, ale ne v khronologichnomu porjadku, a fokusujuchis na okremikh momentakh iz zhittja. Tse j rozpovid pro smert batka, pro namagannja kinuti paliti, istorija odruzhennja ta inshi podiji. Roman je analizom psikhologiji Dzeno, ljudini, jaka pochuvajetsja "khvoroju", "nikchemnoju" i postijno khoche vilikuvati svoju nedugu, ale sprobi tse zrobiti chasto prizvodjat do zvorotnogo rezultatu.

Una de las obras cumbre de la narrativa del siglo XX. «Svevo fue un segundo Proust. -Eugenio Montale Italo Svevo nos presenta aqu la historia de Zeno Cosini, un hombre de negocios torpe y trist n, ad ltero y, sobre todo, empedernido adicto a la nicotina. Para que deje de fumar, su psicoanalista le recomienda que escriba sus memorias. El resultado es una gran comedia psicol gica, una novela inmortal, un cl sico de la narrativa del siglo XX. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the pinnacle works of 20th-century narrative. "Svevo was a second Proust." -Eugenio Montale Italo Svevo presents here the story of Zeno Cosini, a clumsy and melancholic businessman, adulterer, and above all, a hardened nicotine addict. To help him quit smoking, his psychoanalyst recommends that he write his memoirs. The result is a great psychological comedy, an immortal novel, a classic of 20th-century narrative.

''Minä olen vanhus, joka ei rakastaisi ketään ja jota kukaan ei rakastaisi, jos ei olisi minua itseäni, jota rakastan ja joka rakastaa minua."Italo Svevon myöhäiskauden teosten ikääntyneet omaelämäkerralliset sankarit ovat kolminkertaisesti hyviä: hyväntahtoisia, hyväuskoisia ja omahyväisiä. Erinomainen esimerkki tästä on Lyhyen sentimentaalisen matkan herra Aghios, joka pakenee junalla perhettään "matkan vapauteen" kokeillakseen, josko löytäisi kadottamansa elinvoiman sen ulkopuolelta. Svevolle tyypillisen toimintaan kykenemättömän antisankarin tapaan hän tarkkailee elämää ja itseään turvallisesti omien ajatustensa suojasta.

Mario oli varsin terävä nähdessään asiat tuohon tapaan tuolla hetkellä. Vähemmän terävä silloin, kun lisäsi rauhallisesti: "Onneksi oma tilanteeni on erilainen." Italo Svevon vuonna 1926 julkaistu pienoisromaani Onnistunut kepponen on tarina ikääntyvästä triesteläisestä kirjailijasta, jonka menestyksen päivät vaikuttavat koittaneen. Se on samalla kertaa lempeä ja brutaalin tarkkanäköinen katsaus unelmiin ja itsepetokseen.Aron Hector (Ettore) Schmitz (1861-1928) oli paremmin pseudonyymillään Italo Svevo tunnettu, Triestessä syntynyt italialainen kirjailija. Svevo nousi maineeseen romaanillaan Zenon tunnustuksia (1923) sen jälkeen, kun hänen ystävänsä James Joyce oli suositellut sitä ranskalaisille kriitikoille.

Ett av den italienska modernismens stora verk i ny utgåva»Italiens första modernist. Svevo är en mästare.« The New YorkerEfter att Italo Svevos två första böcker misslyckats publikt och helt ignorerats av kritikerna publicerade han på egen hand Zenos bekännelser [La coscienza di Zeno] 1923. Romanen kom att bli Svevos litterära genomslag, mycket tack vare vännen James Joyce som fick boken översatt till franska. I dag betraktas Svevo som en av Italiens mest betydande författare, och Zenos bekännelser - ett av modernismens mer framträdande verk - har haft stort inflytande på efterkommande generationer av italienska författare. Den neurotiske affärsmannen och inbitne nikotinmissbrukaren Zeno uppmanas av sin psykiater att självrannsakande skriva ned sina laster i en dagbok. På så sätt ska han kunna få bukt med sitt invecklade rationaliserande av sitt ofta moraliskt tveksamma beteende. Hans sista cigarett behöver nog trots allt inte bli den sista, och även om han försöker övertyga sig själv om att han älskar sin fru finns det godtagbara ursäkter till att fortsätta en utomäktenskaplig affär. I översättning av Åsa Österman och med ett nyskrivet förord av Torbjörn Elensky. ITALO SVEVO [1861-1928] var en italiensk författare, född i Trieste i dåvarande kejsarriket Österrike. Hans far var av tyskjudisk börd och hans mor var italienska. Svevo skrev sammanlagt tre romaner samt ett flertal noveller och pjäser. Svevo var själv övertygad om att han var förebilden för James Joyces romanfigur Leopold Bloom.

A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno's Conscience. A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, after the international success of Zeno's Conscience in 1923. Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start--aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and plain foolishness of the bourgeois paterfamilias--even as memories of the recent, terrible slaughter of World War I and the contemporary rise of Italian fascism also cast a shadow over the book's pages. It opens with "The Contract," in which Zeno's manager, the hardheaded young Olivi, expresses, like the war veterans who were Mussolini's early followers, a sense of entitlement born of fighting in the trenches. Zeno, by contrast, embodies the confusion and paralysis of the more decorous, although sleepy, way of life associated with the onetime Austro-Hungarian Empire which for so long ruled over Trieste but has now been swept away. As always, Svevo is attracted to the theme of how people fail to fit in. It is they, he suggests, who offer a recognizably human countenance in a world ravaged by the ambitions and fantasies of its true believers.

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 a diary with the aim of conquering his addiction to smoking. He describes his marriage to the woman he didn't want to marry, how he drives his business partner to despair, and how his 'last cigarette' turns out to be one of many. Zeno is the classic 'schlemiel'; his erratic foibles, his questionable logic and his curious inclination to self sabotage help shine a light on human behaviour in general, and reveal the many subtle half-truths people may tell themselves in order to defend their own actions and egos.

A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth centuryWhen vain, obsessive and guilt-ridden Zeno Cosini seeks help for his neuroses, his psychoanalyst suggests he writes his memoirs as a form of therapy. Zeno's account is an alternative reality, a series of elliptical episodes dealing with the death of his father, his career, his marriage and affairs, and, above all, his passion for smoking and his spectacular failure to resist the promise of that last cigarette. A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination, Svevo's devilishly funny portrayal of a man's attempt to give up smoking and make sense of his life has become a cult classic.