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Confessions of Zeno

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(Pittsfield, MA, Estados Unidos de America)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. A Vintage Book (V-63) Translated from the Italian by Beryl De Zoete. Cover design by Milton Glaser, Perma-bound in hardcover for library use. Clean & tight copy w/slight uniform fading & edge-foxing to text block, o/w unmarked; cover is very well preserved w/lacquer. Very Good condition. "CONFESSIONS OF ZENO was hailed as the best novel of the year when it was first published in Italy in 1923. This success was repeated when it was translated and first published in English in 1930. Today it is acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction." [publisher copy] "The pliant protagonist of Italo Svevo's 1923 classic CONFESSIONS OF ZENO is, among other things, a bumbling businessman, a guilt-ridden adulterer, and a hardcore nicotine addict. What Zeno Cosini most definitely is not is wordless. For the novel is in fact a dense and comically excruciating exercise in self-revelation, undertaken by the narrator as part of his psychoanalytic treatment. Zeno never finds a cure for his affliction, which seems to be a strain of continental angst. Yet his reflections remain as audacious as they are exhaustive--and, much of the time, masterfully absorbing."--Ben Guterson. "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 . . . It is a very remarkable book."--Arnold Bennett. "Looking back for many years I can recall no work of such ironic intelligence and bubbling humor as this novel."--Matthew Josephson. Erstwhile library copy appears unchecked-out (no pocket or date-stamps), unread & unmarked (but for library name on edges), w/square & tight binding. Quite presentable. Nº de ref. del artículo: RUB2768

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