Italo Svevo
Italo Svevo · Arts & Literature
Italian modernist novelist ('Zeno's Conscience')
1861, Trieste, Austrian Empire — 1928, Motta di Livenza, Italy
Italy (Trieste)
Italo Svevo is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Italian modernist novelist ('Zeno's Conscience')
Italo Svevo (born Aron Ettore Schmitz) was an Italian modernist novelist whose masterpiece Zeno's Conscience, an ironic, psychoanalytically inflected portrait of a self-deceiving narrator, is a landmark of European fiction, championed by his English tutor James Joyce. Born into a Jewish family in Trieste, he wrote from the margins of the literary world before belated fame.
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Italian modernist novelist ('Zeno's Conscience')
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