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Zeno's Conscience

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Zeno's Conscience
A Novel

Italo Svevo

Translated by William Weaver

Italo Svevo

Zeno's Conscience

Italo Svevo

This modernist classic deserves its reputation as a masterful immersion in the contortions of one neurotic mind. It's the voice here that wins one over, as our hero good-naturedly dissects his own petty motivations, gets caught up in layer after layer...