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Published by Vintage Books USA, New York, NY, 1989
ISBN 10: 0679722343ISBN 13: 9780679722342
Seller: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. Text in Italian, English. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. SC 233.
Published by riverrun, London, 2018
ISBN 10: 1787474178ISBN 13: 9781787474178
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First printing in this format with a complete number string. A firm, clean copy.
Published by A Bantam Book/ Published By Arrangement With New Directions Publishing Corp., Toronto, ON, Canada, New York, London, 1968
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Like New. Bantam Mod Classic Ed Publ. March 1968. 232 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing around edges of pages.
mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES 12mo; 400 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; nicks and chips to cover edges; tips bumped with slight chip or fray; spine slanting; scuffs to face cover; crease to cover; slight smudge imprint front free end page by previous owner; faint stain top edge; tanning edges; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking; italian novel translated into english.
Published by New Directions, New York, 1947
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 412 Pp. Black Cloth,Spine Gilt. Second American Edition, With A New Essay By Poggioli. Near Fine, Slight Usage But Endpapers Foxed; No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $3.50, Worn, Chip Around Top Of Spine, A Few Short Tears And Minute Losses. Per Wikipedia, Aron Hector Schmitz (1861 ? 1928), Better Known By The Pseudonym Italo Svevo, Was An Italian And Austro-Hungarian Writer, Businessman, Novelist, Playwright, And Short Story Writer. During His Time At The Union Bank Of Vienna In The Later 1880'S-90'S, Svevo Contributed To The Italian-Language Socialist Publication L'indipendente (It), And Began Writing Plays (Which He Rarely Finished) Before Beginning Work On Una Vita In 1887. Svevo Adhered To A Humanistic And Democratic Socialism, Which Predisposed Him To Pacifism, And To Advocate For The Creation Of A European Economic Union After The War. A Close Friend Of Irish Novelist And Poet James Joyce, Svevo Was Considered A Pioneer Of The Psychological Novel In Italy And Is Best Known For His Modernist Novel La Coscienza Di Zeno (1923), Which Became A Widely Appreciated Classic Of Italian Literature. The Work, Showing The Author's Interest In The Theories Of Sigmund Freud, Is Written In The Form Of The Memoirs Of Zeno Cosini, Who Writes Them At The Insistence Of His Psychoanalyst. Svevo's Novel Received Almost No Attention From Italian Readers And Critics At The Time. The Work Might Have Disappeared Altogether, If It Were Not For The Efforts Of James Joyce. Joyce Had Met Svevo In 1907, When Joyce Tutored Him In English, While Working For Berlitz In Trieste. Joyce Read Svevo's Earlier Novels, Una Vita And Senilità. Joyce Championed Zeno's Conscience, Helping To Have It Translated Into French And Then Published In Paris, Where Critics Praised It Extravagantly. That Led Italian Critics, Including Eugenio Montale, To Discover It. Zeno Cosini, The Book's Hero And Unreliable Narrator, Mirrored Svevo Himself, Being A Businessman Fascinated By Freudian Theory. Svevo Was Also A Model For Leopold Bloom, The Protagonist Of Joyce's Seminal Novel Ulysses. Zeno's Conscience Never Looks Outside The Narrow Confines Of Trieste, Much Like Joyce's Work, Which Rarely Left Dublin In The Last Years Of Ireland's Time As Part Of The United Kingdom. Svevo Employed Often Sardonic Wit In His Observations Of Trieste And, In Particular, Of His Hero, An Indifferent Man, Who Cheats On His Wife, Lies To His Psychoanalyst, And Is Trying To Explain Himself To His Psychoanalyst, By Revisiting His Memories. There Is A Final Connection Between Svevo And The Character Cosini. Cosini Sought Psychoanalysis, He Said, In Order To Discover Why He Was Addicted To Nicotine. As Svevo Reveals In His Memoirs, Each Time He Had Given Up Smoking, With The Iron Resolve That This Would Be The "Ultima Sigaretta!!", He Experienced The Exhilarating Feeling That He Was Now Beginning Life Over Without The Burden Of His Old Habits And Mistakes. That Feeling Was, However, So Strong That He Found Smoking Irresistible, If Only So That He Could Stop Smoking Again, In Order To Experience That Thrill Once More.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First British Edition. Svevo's second novel, of a failed intellectual. First published to little notice in Italy in 1898, but championed by James Joyce after he read it while tutoring Svevo in English in 1907 and finally published in English several years after Svevo's death, this first edition in English features an introduction by Stanislaus Joyce, who discusses his brother's championing of Svevo's work, and hints that Leopold Bloom is in part modelled on Svevo. Svevo is now considered one of Italy's finest authors. Hardcover, lacking the jacket, as pictured. General wear, corners bumped, minor spine fade, gaps at the gutters between sections, but binding remains sound. Text clean; xiv, [2], 245 pages. Size: Octavo.