A Life

Name: A Life
Author: Italo Svevo

by Italo Svevo

Novella of a man's failed ambitions and quiet despair in Italian provincial town

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Italo Svevo

Italian novelist of Jewish-German heritage whose work pioneered the use of psychoanalytic themes in fiction. Zeno's Conscience, with its unreliable narrator and stream-of-consciousness technique, is a landmark of modernist literature.

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