L'amore sano è quello che abbraccia una donna sola e intera, compreso il suo carattere e la sua intelligenza. - Italo Svevo

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

When a man dies, he has too many other worries to allow any thinking about death.

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.