Zeno's Conscience
Italo Svevo author William Weaver translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:5th Sep '19
Should be back in stock very soon
A marvel of psychological insightfrom one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century.
A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century
When vain, obsessive and guilt-ridden Zeno Cosini seeks help for his neuroses, his psychoanalyst suggests he writes his memoirs as a form of therapy. Zeno's account is an alternative reality, a series of elliptical episodes dealing with the death of his father, his career, his marriage and affairs, and, above all, his passion for smoking and his spectacular failure to resist the promise of that last cigarette. A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination, Svevo's devilishly funny portrayal of a man's attempt to give up smoking and make sense of his life has become a cult classic.
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom * London Review of Books *
ISBN: 9780241372609
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm
Weight: 325g
464 pages