Two Plays - format ePub

Mario Samigli, impiegato sessantenne con velleità artistiche, spera ancora di poter riuscire a raggiungere la notorietà ed essere finalmente considerato un vero scrittore. L'incapacità di saper guardare...

Dopo aver abbandonato il liceo, Giorgio, un giovane triestino indolente e scapestrato, lavora come facchino e divide una piccola camera con un suo coetaneo. I soldi scarseggiano e così, in un momento...

Mario oli varsin terävä nähdessään asiat tuohon tapaan tuolla hetkellä. Vähemmän terävä silloin, kun lisäsi rauhallisesti: "Onneksi oma tilanteeni on erilainen." Italo Svevon vuonna 1926 julkaistu pie­noisromaani...

''Minä olen vanhus, joka ei rakastaisi ketään ja jota kukaan ei rakastaisi, jos ei olisi minua itseäni, jota rakastan ja joka rakastaa minua." Italo Svevon myöhäiskauden teosten ikääntyneet omaelämäkerralliset...

Apprezzato da James Joyce, Senilità è il secondo romanzo di Italo Svevo. La storia ruota intorno a Emilio Brentani, giovane impiegato con velleità letterarie che conduce un'esistenza grigia accanto alla...

Italo Svevo (1861-1928), born Aron Ettore Schmitz in Trieste, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is most well known for his novel _La coscienza di Zeno_. His work for the theater is much less well known...

"Everyone felt his own beloved person threatened," notes the narrator of Svevo's sarcastic tale of a bungling murderer--an underemployed porter known derisively as "il signore" by his equally down-at-heel...

In the company of gentlemen:A gentleman bets a friend of his that he will be able to cow him into turning over his wallet before the evening is out. In an attempt to win his bet, he and another friend,...

Italo Svevo's "The Mother" is a brief and cruel fable in which farmyard chicks hatched in an incubator find themselves longing for a mother. So Curra, a bold and vain cockerel, driven above all by the...

"I desire a lot of women, almost all of them, really. It's my way of hating them, because they give me reason to. They won't have anything to do with me."In the séance that forms the backdrop to Italo...

La presente edizione critica pubblica, in maniera filologicamente rigorosa, le due redazioni di Senilità, la prima edita in volume nel 1898 (Trieste, Ettore Vram) e la seconda del 1927 (Milano, Giuseppe...

Il romanzo si presenta come la confessione di Zeno Cosini, scritta per aiutare il suopsicanalista a curarlo.La narrazione, che segue un ordine logico a dispetto di uno cronologico, tocca lamorte del padre,...

Il grossista italiano di mezza età Zeno cerca senza molto successo di smettere di fumare, ma nulla sembra riuscire ad aiutarlo. Il suo psichiatra gli suggerisce di scrivere la storia della sua vita per...

In questa novella, ambientata a Trieste durante la Prima guerra mondiale, un anziano imprenditore riceve da una conoscente la supplica di trovare un impiego alla figlia ventenne. Il protagonista si mobilita...

L’impiegato Emilio, di 35 anni, conduce una modesta esistenza in un appartamento di Trieste che condivide con la sorella Amalia. La difficoltà del protagonista di gestire la propria vita interiore viene...

Dans cette conférence donnée en 1927, Italo Svevo se fait tant analyste affuté que portraitiste passionné. De son amitié avec James Joyce, rencontré à Trieste en 1906, l'Italien confie la genèse : ignoré...

« Je pense que la cigarette a un goût plus intense quand elle est la dernière. La dernière tire sa saveur du sentiment de victoire sur soi-même et de l'espoir d'un proche avenir de force et de santé....

Pionnier du roman moderne, Svevo nous plonge dans la psyché tourmentée de Zéno Cosini, anti-héros pathétique et drôle qui nous invite à regarder à la loupe ses défauts… et les tares de la société italienne...

Pendant de longues années, autant que dura notre jeunesse, nous nous tînmes sur la plus grande réserve et ne fîmes jamais allusion au passé. L'autre jour, elle me demanda à brûle-pourpoint, et son visage...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie d'Italo Svevo. À trente-cinq ans, Emilio Brentani, modeste employé de bureau et écrivain dilettante, s'est résigné à passer une existence grise et monotone...

Trieste, 1918. Deux frères d'une soixantaine d'années vivent sous le même toit. Si Giulio, atteint de goutte, passe ses journées reclus, Mario, quant à lui, occupe un petit emploi sans envergure pour...

Vieux garçon, Emilio vit en petit bourgeois avec sa soeur Amélie, elle-même vieille fille. Emilio rencontre la jeune et belle Angiolina, et malgré ses calculs, sa prudence égoïste, il ne tarde pas à éprouver...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie d'Italo Svevo. À travers une fascinante confession autobiographique, le très velléitaire triestin Zeno Cosini relate avec un humour grinçant ses névroses et...

Le narrateur, un vieil homme de 70 ans, vit aux côtés de sa femme Augusta. Or, sentant approcher le crépuscule de sa vie, il développe une hypocondrie, qui s’avère chronique. Sur les conseils de son neveu...

Italo Svevo n'est pas seulement l'auteur de trois livres, Une vie, Senilità et La Conscience de Zeno, il a également écrit une assez grande quantité de nouvelles et une quinzaine de pièces de théâtre....

Apprezzato da James Joyce, Senilità è il secondo romanzo di Italo Svevo. La storia ruota intorno a Emilio Brentani, giovane impiegato con velleità letterarie che conduce un’esistenza grigia accanto alla...

At a wedding party thrown for one of his wife's nieces, an older man is given permission to go off of his normally strict diet. Partaking too heavily of the food and wine, he becomes irascible and is...

"Life is this way: first you have to beg for things and then you have to growl to keep them." Argos's master has been sent to the mountains for his health. Bored, he resolves to teach his hunting dog...

Roberto and his wife have just dropped off their children at the station and are now alone with each other in their suddenly quiet house. This brief tale, left unfinished, is one of Svevo's most terrifying.Translated...

'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last'A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S as...

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