Zeno's Conscience - Everyman's Library Cloth Author:Italo Svevo The first new translation in more than 70 years of the modern Italian classic discovered and championed by James Joyce. — Zeno’s Conscience (previously translated as Confessions of Zeno) is at once a comedy of errors, a sly testimonial to the joys of procrastination, and a surpassingly lucid vision of human nature. Italo Svevo... more » tells the story of a hapless, doubting, guilt-ridden man paralyzed by fits of despair and ecstasy and tickled by his own cleverness. His doctor advises him, as a form of therapy, to write his memoirs; and in doing so, Zeno reconstructs and ultimately reshapes the events of his life into a palatable reality for himself–a reality, however, founded on compromise, delusion, and rationalization.
Absorbing and devilishly entertaining, Zeno’s Conscience is a pioneering psychoanalytic novel by one of the most important Italian literary figures of the 20th century.« less