Italo Svevo
Italian businessman, playwright, and writer (1861–1928) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Born | Aron Hector Schmitz (1861-12-19)19 December 1861 |
Died | 13 September 1928(1928-09-13) (aged 66) |
Nationality | Italian, Austro-Hungarian |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, short story writer, playwright, businessman |
Notable work | La coscienza di Zeno |
Spouse | Livia Veneziani |
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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]