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As a form of therapy, Zeno's doctor advises him to write his memoirs. The patient reconstructs the events in his life into a palatable reality founded upon compromise and rationalization.
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- English Books
- Paperback 432 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0679722343
- ISBN-13: 9780679722342
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jun 18, 1989
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Zeno's Conscience
Finished this book yesterday while my internet was down (Ahh how much I have forgotten its nice to relax with a book on a steamy Roman evening. Svevo is in so many senses, a thoroughly French novelist which is unusual for an Italian. Like French writers I find him overly introspective, morally lac ... (continue)
Finished this book yesterday while my internet was down (Ahh how much I have forgotten its nice to relax with a book on a steamy Roman evening. Svevo is in so many senses, a thoroughly French novelist which is unusual for an Italian. Like French writers I find him overly introspective, morally lacerated, solipsistic (in a Sartrean sense), morbidly self-conscious and brimming with weltschmerz. His comedic approach is often acerbic and bile-encrusted. The Baudelaire jet-black sort that sometimes makes my remember how much Svevo (and I) have a fascination with the gesture and the spoken word.
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