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Confessions of Zeno by Svevo, Italo is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Confessions of Zeno about?
"Italo Svevo's Confessions of Zeno belongs to the comic tradition of Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy, though not in the realist manner, but rather in a psychological vein. After reading a few pages the reader will have no doubt that he is confronting a paradoxical juxtaposition between things of the mind and things themselves. Zeno -- the narrator and eponymous hero -- on the surface is a hypochondriac, neurotic, quirky, solipsistic, self-examining and self-serving bourgeois; deep down, however, he is love and goodness incarnate, not by design but by the whims of life. Although Svevo wrote many other works, his opus magnum will remain his Confessions of Zeno. While Proust and others wrote lengthy psychological novels, by their sheer length and density, they become soporific. Not so with Zeno, which is intriguing, suspenseful, engaging--never boring, a magnificent tour de force"-- From the introduction
Who reads Confessions of Zeno?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Svevo, Italo
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781494988357
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (242 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13