Zeno's Conscience

Zeno's Conscience

1923 • 464 pages

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This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a family and a hilarious account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his business or make sense of his private life. A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination, Zeno's Consciencehas provoked enormous affection in its readers both in Italian and English since its first publication in the 1920s.

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Zeno is a 1-book series first released in 1923 with contributions by Italo Svevo.

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July 24, 2012

One of those books I really like because the story matters less than the storytelling - which I always think is the real talent.

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