Life Into Art: Italo Svevo and the Novel
£14.95
Peter Davies examines the novels of Italo Svevo in this penetrating new study. He uncovers the reasons for the slow growth of Svevo’s reputation after he was ‘discovered’ by James Joyce in Trieste before the First World War. In his close reading of the novels, he counsels the reader against accepting Svevo’s tongue-in-cheek valuation of himself as, variously, philosopher and psychiatrist, rather than as the pure novelist he is.
About the author:
Peter Davies is a journalist and literary critic. Among his books are studies of William Blake, The Brontës, Dylan Thomas, and Milton’s Paradise Lost, all published by Greenwich Exchange.
138 pages
ISBN: 978-1-910996-50-8
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