Italo Svevo (1861–1928) Italian writer
Arnold Bennett (ed. Andrew Mylett) The Evening Standard Years (London: Chatto & Windus, 1974) pp. 357-8.
Criticism
“The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno.”
James Wood in London Review of Books, January 3, 2002. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n01/wood02_.html. <br class="br">Criticism
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Italo Svevo (1861–1928) Italian writer
Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975) vol. 3, p. 23.
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