Berkeley. 1969. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket With Tape-Repaired Tear in The Back. Translated from the Italian by Ben Johnson & P. N. Furbank. 302 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by David Stanfield. keywords: Europe Italy Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In the last years of his life Svevo was working on a sequel to THE CONFESSIONS OF ZENO, It was never completed, but from the fragments he left it is possible to conjecture what kind of work it might have been, The five narratives included in this volume deal-like the astonishingly funny and accomplished three-act play with which it ends - with Svevo's obsession with old age, its miseries and consolations, In the humor, tenderness and gently irony of these final works, and in the beauty and complexity of their prose, the voice of THE CONFESSIONS OF ZENO and AS A MAN GROWS OLDER will be found to be as steady as ever, the laughter as sharp, the insight undimmed. CONTENTS: Bibliographical Note; THE OLD OLD MAN; AN OLD MAN'S CONFESSIONS; UMBERTINO; A CONTRACT; THIS INDOLENCE OF MINE; REGENERATION: a Comedy in three Acts. inventory #10004

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Author bio	Italo Svevo was born in Trieste in 1861. Educated primarily in Bavaria, he wrote in Italian, but had to work as a young man as a French and German correspondence clerk in a Trieste bank, He was not happy in the business world and at the age of thirty-one he wrote and had published at his own expense A LIFE. It was followed four years later by AS A MAN GROWS 0LDER. But both books were such failures that Svevo gave up writing for the next twenty years. During this time he became a good friend of James Joyce, who was so impressed with Svevo's work that when THE CONFESSIONS OF ZENO was published in 1923, Joyce was able to use his influence to make Svevo known in Europe. Svevo was just beginning to become recognized in Italy when he was killed in 1928 in a car accident.

Author bio

Author bio

Italo Svevo was born in Trieste in 1861. Educated primarily in Bavaria, he wrote in Italian, but had to work as a young man as a French and German correspondence clerk in a Trieste bank, He was not happy in the business world and at the age of thirty-one he wrote and had published at his own expense A LIFE. It was followed four years later by AS A MAN GROWS 0LDER. But both books were such failures that Svevo gave up writing for the next twenty years. During this time he became a good friend of James Joyce, who was so impressed with Svevo's work that when THE CONFESSIONS OF ZENO was published in 1923, Joyce was able to use his influence to make Svevo known in Europe. Svevo was just beginning to become recognized in Italy when he was killed in 1928 in a car accident.

Svevo, Italo. Further Confessions of Zeno

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