| #4667149 in Books | 2001-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.25 x5.37 x8.09l,.91 | File type: PDF | 272 pages||11 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| the perils of an imaginary life|By M. Benet|Emilio's Carnival, or Senilità, was written in 1898, a hundred years before an American president fell from grace on the account of his entanglement with a young intern and his propensity to debate the meaning of words, such as the word "is." Emilio of the tile of this book -- middle-aged, middle-of-the-road writer worki||"This publication is an important, welcome event. Svevo's almost unknown masterpiece, Senilita, is now available in a fresh, deft new translation by Beth Archer Brombert. Victor Brombert's introduction aptly places Svevo and the novel in the great European tra
Italo Svevo's early novel Senilita (1898) remained unknown for many years until James Joyce encountered the novelist in Trieste and came to admire Senilita as a preeminent modern Italian novel. Joyee helped to launch Svevo's career, and years later Svevo achieved great fame with his masterpiece, Confessions of Zeno. In Senilita, Svevo tells the story of the amorous entanglement of Emilio, a failed writer already old at thirty-five, and Angiolina, a seductively beautiful ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Emilio's Carnival | Italo Svevo. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
