Zeno's Conscience (Vintage International)

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Zeno's Conscience (Vintage International)

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevoâ€™s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist. Here are Zenoâ€™s interminable attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the beautiful yet unresponsive Ada, his unexpectedâ€“and unexpectedly happyâ€“marriage to Adaâ€™s homely sister Augusta, and his affair with a shrill-voiced aspiring singer. Relating these misadventures with wry wit and a perspicacity at once unblinking and compassionate, Zenoâ€™s Conscience is a miracle of psychological realism.

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