Italo Svevo

Italo Svevo
Portrait of Italo Svevo
Born
Aron Hector Schmitz

(1861-12-19)19 December 1861
Died13 September 1928(1928-09-13) (aged 66)
NationalityItalian, Austro-Hungarian
Occupation(s)Novelist, short story writer, playwright, businessman
Notable workLa coscienza di Zeno
SpouseLivia 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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Hensher, Philip (13 August 2016). "The fairy-tale friendship of James Joyce and Italo Svevo". The Spectator. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  3. ^ Raspa, Venanzio (2010). The Aesthetics of the Graz School. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. p. 40. ISBN 978-3-86838-076-7