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The Italian writer Italo Svevo, author of "Confessions of Zeno" and "A s a Man Grows Older" was in everyday existence the Triestine paint-manufacturer Ettore Schmitz. An Austrian-Italian and anticlerical Jew, a man of socialist sympathies who lived as a bourgeois capitalist, an Italian nationalist who in war-time supplied Italy's enemy, Svevo led a double life. This new biography describes Schmitz's boyhood and youth; his marriage to the engaging Livia, and his experiences as a businessman working for the family firm, including the trips to London which left him with vivid impressions of the English. It attempts also to trace Svevo's ambiguous relationship to the complex political situation in Trieste; and it relates the development of the writer within a culture that ignored him: his intellectual formation, his discovery of Freud, and his friendships with the painter Veruda and with James Joyce, who `discovered' him. Readers of Svevo; all those interested in Italian literature, the twentieth century novel, and James Joyce, and students of the history and cultu re of post-Garibaldi Italy will find this biography of great interest.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A biography of Ettore Schmidt, who wrote "Confessions of Zeno" under the pen name Italo Svevo, and lead a full life around the turn of the 20th Century. Jacket shows some indentations and creases. Foxing on front and rear edge pages, as well as pencil notation at front. Light foxing on top and front edges, but otherwise pages in very good condition. pp. xii, 410 (8 pages of b/w plates)/8vo. Please note that, depending on destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2501.(This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors). Seller Inventory # ABE-1735917260555
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ITALO SVEVO - A Double Life.
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0198158483
ISBN 13: 9780198158486
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Seller: Antiquariat ExLibris Erlach Eberhard Ott, Ochsenfurt - Erlach, BY, Germany
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15 sw. Abb. auf Kunstdrucktafeln. Zustand: Achtung: leichter Kellergeruch! Buch noch gut, Schnitt und Vorsätze stockfleckig. SU in Folie eingeschlagen (nicht foliert). - Klappentext: Italo Svevo was the pen-name of businessman Ettore Schmitz (1861-1928); and the name was symbolic of the contradictions inherent in his personality and career. This Austrian Italian and anticlerical Jew inhabited Italy's 'unredeemed' and fiercely contested city of Trieste. But Schmitz was a dreamer, not a man of action: a Socialist by inclination, who lived as a bourgeois capitalist; a possessive husband who pressed feminist literature on his wife; a novelist turned paint-manufacturer, familiar with Shakespeare, Goethe and Freud, who had fantasies about turpentine, and his 'last cigarette', and literary success; an Italian nationalist who during the Great War supplied paint to the enemy's navy. Only by writing could Svevo face up to these contradictions; and his masterpiece, Confessions of Zeno, reflects the turmoiL, guilt and confusion of twentieth-century man. - This book aims to catch, against the backdrop of public events, the private manneurotic, affable, charming, hard to pin down in the double life that he led: Ettore Schmitz the family man, married to the engaging Livia, and member of the family firmoften sent to London on business, which left him with vivid impressions of the English; and there was Italo Svevo, writer, the friend of James Joyce, who 'discovered' Svevo as Trieste had failed to do. John Gatt-Rutter has v.-ritten a comprehensive, discerning and authoritative biography of this elusive subject who is one of the most representative of modern writers, and whose readers can say, as Svevo did, 'In Zeno I see myself.' John Gatt-Rutter is Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Griffith University, Brisbane. He is the author of Writers and Politics in Modern Italy (1978). - Jacket photo: Italo Svevo watching Italian troops land in Tneste, 3 November 1918. Reproduced by courtesy of Letizia Svevo Fonda Savio. ISBN: 0198158483 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 852 Gr. 8° (24,5x16cm), blauer Leinen-Einband mit Goldprägung am Rücken, im OSchutzU. Seller Inventory # 10945
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Italo Svevo a double life
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1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical Description: ix, 410 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects: 1800-1999; Authors, Italian 19th century Biography; Fiction in Italian Svevo, Italo - Biographies. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 421396
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1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical Description: ix, 410 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects: 1800-1999; Authors, Italian 19th century Biography; Fiction in Italian Svevo, Italo - Biographies. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 421396
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Italo Svevo. A Double Life.
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Leinen. Condition: Gut. ix, 410 Seiten. Einband leicht bestoßen. Auf wenigen Seiten Bleistiftanstreichungen. Ansonsten gut erhalten. Lädierter Originalumschlag liegt bei. 0198158483 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200. Seller Inventory # 107535