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[fiction] A Very Old Man Stories by Italo Svevo | 990.03 KB
Title: A Very Old Man
Author: Italo Svevo
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A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno's Conscience.
A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, after the international success of Zeno's Conscience in 1923.
Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start-aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and plain foolishness of the bourgeois paterfamilias-even as memories of the recent, terrible slaughter of World War I and the contemporary rise of Italian fascism also cast a shadow over the book's pages.
It opens with "The Contract," in which Zeno's manager, the hardheaded young Olivi, expresses, like the war veterans who were Mussolini's early followers, a sense of entitlement born of fighting in the...
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A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno's Conscience.
A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, after the international success of Zeno's Conscience in 1923.
Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start-aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and plain foolishness of the bourgeois paterfamilias-even as memories of the recent, terrible slaughter of World War I and the contemporary rise of Italian fascism also cast a shadow over the book's pages.
It opens with "The Contract," in which Zeno's manager, the hardheaded young Olivi, expresses, like the war veterans who were Mussolini's early followers, a sense of entitlement born of fighting in the...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/ffdc8f6d51b4b619ae68a68eca686410/Italo_Svevo_-_A_Very_Old_Man-_Stories.
https://alfafile.net/file/AS4Bj/Italo_Svevo_-_A_Very_Old_Man-_Stories.
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