Zeno’s Conscience A Novel
Zeno’s Conscience A Novel by Italo Svevo is a reprint edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on February 4, 2003. This 464-page novel, presented in English, explores the intricacies of the mind of Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who documents his confessions at the urging of his psychiatrist. Through Zeno’s humorous and self-deluding narrative, readers are drawn into his struggles with smoking, his courtship of the elusive Ada, and his unexpected marriage to Ada’s sister, Augusta.
In this novel, Svevo delves into themes of psychological realism, capturing Zeno’s misadventures with a blend of wit and insight. The story unfolds as Zeno navigates his relationships and personal challenges, including an affair with an aspiring singer. This edition offers a fresh translation of a work long recognized as a significant contribution to modernist literature, inviting readers to engage with Zeno’s complex character and the humorous yet poignant situations he encounters.
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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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