Origin and Identity
Essays on Svevo and Trieste

Elizabeth Schächter

Italian Perspectives 5

Legenda

1 November 2000  •  188pp

ISBN: 978-1-902653-12-9 (paperback, forthcoming)

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Italo Svevo, although neglected until the last few years of his life, is now acknowledged as a writer of international stature alongside his contemporaries Kafka, Proust and Joyce. These essays focus on his three novels, Una Vita, Senilitá and La coscienza di Zeno. Drawing on new biographical and critical research, key issues are explored such as Svevo's Jewishness; his debt to psychoanalysis; sexuality and love; structure and irony; and time and narration. The opening chapter is devoted to Trieste, which features so prominently in his oeuvre. This book will provide both the general reader and the student with a valuable re-evaluation of a unique writer of genius.

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Schächter, Elizabeth, Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste, Italian Perspectives, 5 (Legenda, 2000)

First footnote reference: 35 Elizabeth Schächter, Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste, Italian Perspectives, 5 (Legenda, 2000), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Schächter, p. 47.

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Schächter, Elizabeth. 2000. Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste, Italian Perspectives, 5 (Legenda)

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