Italo Svevo | |
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 Portrait of Italo Svevo | |
| Born | Aron Hector Schmitz 19 December 1861 |
| Died | 13 September 1928 (aged 66) |
| Nationality | Italian, Austro-Hungarian |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, short story writer, playwright, businessman |
| Notable work | La coscienza di Zeno |
| Spouse | Livia Veneziani |
Aron Hector Schmitz[1] (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.[1]
A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce,[2] 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.[1] He was also the cousin of the Italian academic Steno Tedeschi.[3]
- ^ a b c Costa, Simona (2018). "SCHMITZ, Aron Hector". Enciclopedia Treccani. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 91. Rome: Treccani. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- ^ Hensher, Philip (13 August 2016). "The fairy-tale friendship of James Joyce and Italo Svevo". The Spectator. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- ^ Raspa, Venanzio (2010). The Aesthetics of the Graz School. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. p. 40. ISBN 978-3-86838-076-7