Zeno's Conscience: Introduction by William WeaverKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 06/11/2001 - 437 من الصفحات The modern Italian classic discovered and championed by James Joyce, Zeno’s Conscience is a marvel of psychological insight, published here in a fine new translation by William Weaver–the first in more than seventy years.
Italo Svevo’s masterpiece tells the story of a hapless, doubting, guilt-ridden man paralyzed by fits of ecstasy and despair and tickled by his own cleverness. His doctor advises him, as a form of therapy, to write his memoirs; in doing so, Zeno reconstructs and ultimately reshapes the events of his life into a palatable reality for himself–a reality, however, founded on compromise, delusion, and rationalization.
With cigarette in hand, Zeno sets out in search of health and happiness, hoping along the way to free himself from countless vices, not least of which is his accursed “last cigarette!” (Zeno’s famously ineffectual refrain is inevitably followed by a lapse in resolve.) His amorous wanderings win him the shrill affections of an aspiring coloratura, and his confidence in his financial savoir-faire involves him in a hopeless speculative enterprise. Meanwhile, his trusting wife reliably awaits his return at appointed mealtimes.
Zeno’s adventures rise to antic heights in this pioneering psychoanalytic novel, as his restlessly self-preserving commentary inventively embroiders the truth. Absorbing and devilishly entertaining, Zeno’s Conscience is at once a comedy of errors, a sly testimonial to the joys of procrastination, and a surpassingly lucid vision of human nature by one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century. |
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... Luciano at great length how it was no longer the practice to handle so much cash . Checks passed from one to another in any amount you wanted . Ours was a splendid victory , and Luciano remained silent . He benefited greatly from what ...
Introduction by William Weaver Italo Svevo. Luciano was there , too . What a disaster for our business if we were to sink ! Surely she had told me about Luciano's being there only to prove to me that the meeting was innocent . Then she ...
... Luciano confirm the catching of the two bream , and from that time on I imagined that , to ingratiate himself with Guido , Luciano was capable of anything . Still during the idyllic calm that preceded the copper- sulfate affair ...
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Preface by Elizabeth Hardwick | xiii |
Bibliographical Note | xxv |
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