A Very Old Man: Stories by Italo Svevo

A Very Old Man: Stories

Italo Svevo with Frederika Randall (Translator)

144 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

challenging reflective medium-paced
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It opens with “The Contract,” in which Zeno’s manager, the hardheaded young Olivi, expresses, like the war veterans who were Mussolini’s early followers, a sense of entitlement born of fighting in the trenches. Zeno, by contrast, embodies the conf...

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