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La coscienza di Zeno / Senilità

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I due grandi romanzi di Italo Svevo; due protagonisti comuni, con le aspirazioni e le paure dell'uomo comune, dal tentativo di smettere di fumare alla gestione faticosa del mènage amoroso...

521 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 2, 2012

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Italo Svevo

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Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.

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October 21, 2026
Ik heb het in het Nederlands gelezen, maar die staat niet op Goodreads. EINDELIJK UIT! De manier van schrijven vond ik erg mooi, beschaafde taal van vroeger. Ik kwam er erg moeilijk in. Er gebeurt niet erg veel, dit was ook het boek waar hij aan begonnen is en voor hij het af kon schrijven stierf. De hoofdstukken lijken dus losse verhalen die niet echt op elkaar aansluiten en opzich zelf ook een beetje onvolledig zijn. Toch vond ik het een mooi portret van het normale dagelijks leven.
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June 13, 2019
"Del senno di poi si può sempre ridere e anche di quello di prima, perché non serve."
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56 reviews40 followers
October 2, 2020
Lo stile di scrittura è molto difficile da adattare con la letteratura italiana.
Le abilità da scrittore di Italo Svevo sono messe alla prova.
Un ottimo romanzo per chi ama l' introspezione del personaggio protagonista e la sua figura da inetto.
Purtroppo non mi ha convinto.
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