In the mind of a young man from a middle-class family, the concept of human life is associated with that of a career, and in early youth the career i… - Italo Svevo
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About Italo Svevo
Aron Hector Schmitz (or Ettore Schmitz; December 19, 1861 – September 13, 1928), better known by his pseudonym Italo Svevo, was a Triestine businessman and writer, best known for his novel La coscienzia di Zeno. He was of Austro-Hungarian citizenship for the greater part of his life, but his works were written in Italian.
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E. Samigli
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Aron Ettore Schmitz
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Ettore Schmitz
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Aron Hector Schmitz
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Hector Schmitz
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Ettore Samigli
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Svevo’s Zeno, with his complicated relationship with psychoanalysis, is an unforgettable embodiment of the situation of the 20th century humans who have been persuaded by ideologies that they should not listen to [the moral compass of] conscience.
They may believe they are very modern and sophisticated, but in the end they are not able to impose order on the chaos of consciousness and their lives end up in moral bankruptcy.
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Zeno lives in an era of turmoil, and ultimately does not succeed in recovering his conscience. However, he has his opportunities to understand that, notwithstanding what the psychoanalyst tells him, only [the moral compass of] conscience can impose the needed order to what is otherwise a chaotic flow of disconnected pieces of consciousness. These opportunities come when he is confronted with suffering and the world’s injustice, although neither he nor the other main characters in the novel profit of them.
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