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This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a family and a hilarious account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his business or make sense of his private life.A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination ZENO'S CONSCIENCE has provoked enormous affection in its readers both in Italian and English since its first publication in the 1920s.
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Zeno's conscience, William Weaver, Italo Svevo
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- Zeno's conscience
- Language
- English
- Authors
- William Weaver, Italo Svevo
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN10
- 014018774x
- ISBN13
- 9780140187748
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Humor, Love, Classics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, 20th century, Southern Europe, Italy, Marriage, Italian Literature, Psychological novels, Psychoanalysis, Guilt, Heritage, Infidelity, Smoking, Trieste, Neuroses
- First published
- 1923
- Original title
- La Coscienza di Zeno
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a family and a hilarious account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his business or make sense of his private life.A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination ZENO'S CONSCIENCE has provoked enormous affection in its readers both in Italian and English since its first publication in the 1920s.