Italo Svevo: Modernity

Italo Svevo was Italian writer. Explore interesting quotes on modernity.

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“A novelist who ranks with Proust, Kafka, Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.”

Italo Svevo

Paul Bailey, The Independent, September 24, 1999. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-the-comic-genius-at-number-67-1121408.html. <br class="br">Criticism

“You might with advantage take out your map of modern literature and mark on it the name of Italo Svevo…for Svevo and his novel, Confessions of Zeno…will henceforth be on other people's maps, and it is well that the atlases of the enlightened should agree.”

Italo Svevo

Arnold Bennett (ed. Andrew Mylett) The Evening Standard Years (London: Chatto & Windus, 1974) pp. 357-8.
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“The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno.”

Italo Svevo

James Wood in London Review of Books, January 3, 2002. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n01/wood02_.html. <br class="br">Criticism