A novelist who ranks with Proust, Kafka, Musil and his frie… - Italo Svevo

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A novelist who ranks with Proust, Kafka, Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

Italo Svevo

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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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Pen Names: E. Samigli

Alternative Names: Aron Ettore Schmitz • Ettore Schmitz • Aron Hector Schmitz • Hector Schmitz • Ettore Samigli

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The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno.

Quando si muore si ha ben altro da fare che di pensare alla morte.

You might with advantage take out your map of modern literature and mark on it the name of Italo Svevo…for Svevo and his novel, Confessions of Zeno…will henceforth be on other people's maps, and it is well that the atlases of the enlightened should agree.

A novelist who ranks with Proust, Kafka, Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. - Italo Svevo

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