biography
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Svevo, Italo
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pseudonym of Ettore Schmitz
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pronunciation:
[zvayvoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1861–1928)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Trieste, NE Italy. He worked as a bank clerk, then turned to writing, encouraged by James Joyce, who taught him English. He had a considerable success with La coscienza di Zeno (1923, The Confessions of Zeno), a psychological study of inner conflicts which breaks all established patterns and where the outside world exists only in the character's mind.. |
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