Memoir of Italo Svevo
Autor Livia Veneziani Svevo Traducere de Isabel Quigley Prefață de P. N. Furbanken Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mai 2001
Writer Italo Svevo had many things in common with other writers: a long struggle for recognition; a friendship with a noteworthy author (in Svevo's case, James Joyce); and a long list of neuroses. His choice of a wife, however, was anything but common. Livia Veneziani Svevo tirelessly worked on her husband's behalf after his tragic early death and also penned this remarkable portrait of a serious artist and a loving (if quirky) marriage. Memoir of Italo Svevo tells the story of how a successful middle-aged businessman, as obsessed with smoking as with his abandoned literary ambitions, somehow became one of the great authors of the twentieth century.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810160842
ISBN-10: 0810160846
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Marlboro Press
ISBN-10: 0810160846
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Marlboro Press
Notă biografică
Livia Veneziani Svevo was born in 1874 to a family of middle-class Catholics. After a childhood spent partly in Marseilles, she returned to Trieste with her family in 1885. At age eighteen she struck up a friendship with a distant Jewish cousin named Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), a bank employee and would-be writer thirteen years her senior. They married in 1896. Declared a Jew under Italian racial laws, she fled Trieste during World War II and wrote Memoir of Italo Svevo while in hiding.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Publisher's Note
Preface, by P. N. Furbank
Memoir of Italo Svevo
Appendix
James Joyce, by Italo Svevo
Index
Publisher's Note
Preface, by P. N. Furbank
Memoir of Italo Svevo
Appendix
James Joyce, by Italo Svevo
Index
Recenzii
"This concise memoir cannot be bettered: it is affectionate, informative, and a pleasure to read."
--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World
--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World
"Ettore Schmitz, better known as Italo Svevo, was clearly lucky in his wife. Rather than burning his papers or burnishing his reputation (he is among the very best twentieth-century novelists), she set down her recollections of an ambiguous man with clarity and punctiliousness. Literary history as it should be writ, without flourishes."
--Keith Botsford, Bostonia
--Keith Botsford, Bostonia
"[T]he book is a small triumph. It paints a memorable, but not uncritical, portrait of the man and the writer, the two complementing one another."
--Observer
"This loving yet objective reminiscence by his wife of 33 years limns an obsessive self-analyzer and chain smoker who was successful in business but frustrated in his literary pursuits until shortly before his death in 1928, when James Joyce, who claimed to have been greatly influenced by him and was his English-language tutor in Trieste, promoted his writings. . . . [A] serene, sparkling memoir."
--Publishers Weekly
--Observer
"This loving yet objective reminiscence by his wife of 33 years limns an obsessive self-analyzer and chain smoker who was successful in business but frustrated in his literary pursuits until shortly before his death in 1928, when James Joyce, who claimed to have been greatly influenced by him and was his English-language tutor in Trieste, promoted his writings. . . . [A] serene, sparkling memoir."
--Publishers Weekly
Descriere
Writer Italo Svevo had many things in common with other writers: a long struggle for recognition; a friendship with a noteworthy author (in Svevo's case, James Joyce); and a long list of neuroses. His choice of a wife, however, was anything but common. Livia Veneziani Svevo tirelessly worked on her husband's behalf after his tragic early death and also penned this remarkable portrait of a serious artist and a loving (if quirky) marriage. Memoir of Italo Svevo tells the story of how a successful middle-aged businessman, as obsessed with smoking as with his abandoned literary ambitions, somehow became one of the great authors of the twentieth century.