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Zeno's Conscience
Zeno's Conscience | Italo Svevo
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist. Here are Zeno’s interminable attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the beautiful yet unresponsive Ada, his unexpected–and unexpectedly happy–marriage to Ada’s homely sister Augusta, and his affair with a shrill-voiced aspiring singer. Relating these misadventures with wry wit and a perspicacity at once unblinking and compassionate, Zeno’s Conscience is a miracle of psychological realism.
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Zeno's Conscience | Italo Svevo
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The pure art of language. Poetry in a novel. Deep thoughts extend from a simple dry line on the page and explode inside you with the power of a nuclear explosion. You don't only understand the words, you grab the feeling, you understand it through the simplicity of knowledge. Referred to the father: "Mai non fummo tanto e sí a lungo insieme come nel mio pianto" (we've never been so much and long together as in my tears)

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Zeno's Conscience | Italo Svevo
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Bought the remaining books needed for my planned #LitsyClassics reading list today! They were all super cheap kindle books, so why not? Now I physically own all 26 of my selections so there‘s no excuse to not get them read. Excited for 2018 now!

Andrew65 Best of luck! 7y
BarbaraBB I loved the tagged book 🚬🚬 7y
TheBookHippie My plan today as well!!! 📖📖📖 7y
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La coscienza di Zeno | Italo Svevo
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