Saturday, 30 January 2016

Zeno's Conscience

Zeno's Conscience



Los Angeles Situations An outstanding new rendering [of a] marvellous and original book.James Wood, London Evaluation of Books A masterpiece, a novel overflowing with human actuality in all its murkiness, laughter and terror, a guide as striking and appropriate these days as when it was 1st published, and a guide that is in each and every and every single single outstanding wayits originality includedlike lifestyle. Claire Messud, The New Republic Hilarious. . . . Effortlessly inventive and eerily prescient. . . . William Weaver . . . updates the novelist's idiosyncratic prose with wonderful affection. The Atlantic Month to month An occasion in contemporary publishing. For the 1st time, I genuinely feel, in English, we get the true, dark music, the pewter tints, of Svevo's exceptional final novel. . . . [Svevo is] a master. Joan Acocella, The New Yorker [An] exhilarating and utterly distinctive novel. . . . Weaver's model strikes one specific as outstanding. P. N. Furbank, Literary Evaluation A single of the wonderful comic novels of the twentieth century. . . . [Svevo is] probably the most considerable Italian modernist novelist. The Events Literary Supplement [A] neglected masterpiece. Seventy-five a lot of years preceding, the novel feels completely existing day. The Boston Globe A explanation for celebration. . . . If you have by no signifies go by indicates of Svevo, do so as quickly as you can. He is spectacular and essential. New Statesman 1 distinct specific of the indispensable 20th-century novels. . . . A revolutionary book, and arguably (in reality, most possibly) the best of all Italian novels. Kirkus Evaluations No a single has attained far a great deal far more to make recent day Italian literature offered in English than William Weaver. . . . [His new translation is] scrupulously suitable. Anniston Star ]]>

Record Worth:

Value: twelve.99

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