Italo Svevo: A Double Life (UK HB 1st)

Gatt-Rutter, John

ISBN 10: 0198158483 / ISBN 13: 9780198158486

Published by Oxford University Press - OUP, 1988

UK hardback first impression. VG with some spots to top edge of page block and previous owner name to ffep, in Good only jacket with a tear to top of spine at rear join, and a crease to bottom corner of rear flap. Seller Inventory # ABE-1759484832265

Synopsis:

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Italo Svevo: A Double Life (UK HB 1st)
Publisher: Oxford University Press - OUP
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition