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Italo Svevo (Italian writer)

  • Aron Hector Schmitz
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Svevo, Italo
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Person
Gender
Male
Date of birth
1861-12-19
Place of birth
Trieste
Date of death
1928-09-13
Place of death
Motta di Livenza

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Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian: [ˈiːtalo ˈzvɛːvo]), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), which became a widely appreciated classic of Italian literature. He was also the cousin of the Italian academic Steno Tedeschi.

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2024-07-24