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	Italo Svevo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Trieste (then in Austria-Hungary), Svevo wrote the classic novel La Coscienza di Zeno (rendered as Confessions of Zeno, or Zeno's Conscience) and self-published it in 1923.
		Confessions of Zeno never looks outside the narrow confines of Trieste, much like Joyce's early works, which never left Dublin in the last years of Ireland's years as a British colony.
		Svevo brings a keenly sardonic wit to his observations of Trieste and, in particular, to his hero, an indifferent man who cheats on his wife and lies to his psychiatrist and who is trying to explain himself to his psychiatrist by revisiting his memories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italo_Svevo (567 words)

	LexisNexis(TM) Academic - Document
		Zeno, whose father believed him incompetent to manage his inheritance and therefore put an accountant in charge, is a man with little to do.
		A nurse, Giovanna, assigned to supervise Zeno's detoxification, ends up giving him a handful of cigarettes because she is old and lonely and the wily Zeno has convinced her that when he is primed with nicotine no woman is safe in his presence.
		In "Zeno" the mistress, Carla, is a sweet girl, with shining braids; the father's death is leavened with comedy; and the hero's shame is seen with a wise eye.
	aurorasattic.tripod.com /svevo.htm (4502 words)

	Babelguides: Confessions of Zeno
		Zeno Cosini is an elderly businessman who turns to the new science of psychoanalysis to try to rid himself of a series of physical and mental ailments.
		Zeno’s adversities lie at the heart of twentieth-century man’s crisis of values, his struggle for identity, and they leave their stamp on him as a total existential failure.
		Zeno’s irony illuminates the writer’s detachment from reality, a detachment exacerbated by the lack of recognition afforded Svevo, who only found fame towards the end of his life and then mainly abroad.
	babelguides.com /view/work/514 (395 words)

	CONFESSIONS : HANDSPRING PUPPET COMPANY - cutting edge Puppet Theatre
		Confessions of Zeno is a multi-media theatre piece that combines puppetry, live singing, acting, a string quartet and video projection.
		Confessions is an expanded version of Zeno at 4am which toured Brussels, France and the United States in 2001.
		Zeno's self-knowledge, but the absolute inability of this self-knowledge to force him to act, or at other times to stop him from acting, feels familiar.
	www.handspringpuppet.co.za /html/confessions.html (958 words)

	Books
		I am publishing [Zeno’s autobiography] in revenge, and I hope he is displeased." The resentful Dr. S offers us a manuscript detailing the life of his patient, Zeno Corsini—a patient who cannot be trusted and who, later in the book, reveals that he disliked his analyst and falsified his memoirs out of spite.
		Zeno, an endearing bourgeois with a painfully ingrown consciousness, is the kind of man who measures out his days in endless "last cigarettes" ("I believe the taste of a cigarette is more intense when it’s your last").
		Zeno, by falsifying his memoirs, thwarts his analyst and is in turn thwarted when the analyst publishes the false statements.
	www.crisismagazine.com /june2002/book2.htm (1165 words)

	Review: Staging the Artist's Vision
		This monologue proved Zeno to be intelligent, articulate and crafty with the spoken word.
		Zeno's eloquence failed him at the moment he needed it most; ironically, Zeno was damned to be misunderstood by the man he wanted to understand him the most - his own father.
		The puppets, acting as a silent, mimetic chorus to the actions of Zeno, were simultaneoulsy filmed and projected onto a large paneled screen just behind the tormented father and son.
	www.artic.edu /webspaces/fnews/2001-december/decfeatures4.html (877 words)

	ZENO AT 4 AM : HANDSPRING PUPPET COMPANY - cutting edge Puppet Theatre
		ZENO at 4 AM The production is based on a chapter from Italian author Italo Svevo's 1923 cult novel Confessions of Zeno - the first novel where Freudian psychoanalysis is central to the plot.
		Confessions was also performed at the Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts in Grahamstown, South Africa, in July 2002.
		When I first read Italo Svevo's Confessions of Zeno some twenty years ago, one of the things that drew me to it was the evocation of Trieste as a rather desperate provincial city at the edge of an empire - away from the centre.
	www.handspringpuppet.co.za /html/zeno.html (782 words)

	Brotto - Italo Svevo's Zeno's Conscience
		Zeno seems to me first and foremost to be a master of resentment, a resentment that in him mingles with desire in an inextricable knot.
		Zeno always oscillates, when he is confronting the other, between envy (sometimes disguised as admiration) if the other seems to him to be like him but stronger, and antipathy if the other is apparently different.
		Zeno is a resentful human being, and he is such from the beginning; he retains this character, eluding every conciliation, unless it is merely apparent.
	www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /ap0901/brotto.htm (8806 words)

	A R T T H R O B / R E V I E W S
		Confessions of Zeno, shown at Documenta XI in Kassel last year, is the fifth.
		Filmed images of luxuriant clouds of cigarette smoke highlight one of the central obsessions of Zeno, at the beginning of the play, lounging on a bed set in front of the screen: "I promised my wife to stop smoking at 2 p.m," he says, immediately recounting all the other such promises made over the years.
		Zeno played for three performances in February in the outdoor theatre at the Spier Wine Estate, near Cape Town.
	www.artthrob.co.za /03mar/reviews/spier.html (605 words)

	LRB \| James Wood : Mixed Feelings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Confessions of Zeno moves between moral correction and tragic pathos, between the bracing spectacle of vanity and the sad prospect of an imprisoned self acting as if it were free.
		Zeno is a hypochondriacal, neurotic, delightful, solipsistic, self-examining and self-serving bourgeois, a true blossom of the mal du siècle.
		Zeno's sins are real enough: it is his innocence that he invents, his innocence that is his fond fantasy.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v24/n01/wood02_.html (3943 words)

	amber fogel on william kentridge at marian goodman
		'Zeno Writing', a multi-media project by South African artist William Kentridge which included a short animated film and supporting drawings, recently on show at Marian Goodman, is based on Italo Svevo's 1923 novel Confessions of Zeno.
		Zeno is an individual caught in the fray, continually frustrated in his aspirations.
		Zeno, encouraged by his psychiatrist, writes his autobiography, a stream-of-consciousness project that Kentridge translates into visual form.
	www.artcritical.com /fogel/AFKentridge.htm (1006 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Svevo, Italo - 2002 [1923] - Zeno's Conscience Books Review
		Either sense is at least somewhat ironic in that Zeno is patently unconscious of his motives and much else, and his conscience is either stunted or easily satisfied with rationalizations that are obviously false to the reader.
		Zeno has trouble recalling his dreams when he needs to produce them for his psychoanalyst (and starts inventing some), but his whole life—as he recalls it in what he writes for his psychoanalyst—is something of a dream.
		Zeno at least continues to land on his feet, however absurd their placement may be.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10003607 (1261 words)

	A tragical-comical masterpiece Spectator, The - Find Articles
		Zeno, with characteristic contrariness, loathes the psychiatrist in question, a certain `Doctor S', whom Svevo uses to frame the narrative: Doctor S is publishing his patient's papers `in revenge...
		Zeno's 'confessions' (I still prefer this word to Weaver's choice of 'conscience', with its lugubrious overtones) are split into five key episodes.
		Beginning with the saga of his attempts to give up smoking (here is a man who celebrates his release from the tyranny of tobacco with a cigarette!), Zeno moves on to relate the death of his beloved father (whose last gesture, in the throes of death, is to slap his son across the face).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200202/ai_n9040464 (730 words)

	kunstenFESTIVALdesarts - Confessions of Zeno
		Confessions of Zeno is the account of a life of failure, written in the first person by Zeno Cosini, the novel’s central character.
		Zeno strays out of the bedroom of his first act insomnia, and through the streets of Trieste.
		What becomes central in Confessions is the construction of a live image – at the centre of the stage is a screen, and at the side, at an oblique angle, is the movement of the shadows and silhouettes which make the cinematic image.
	www.kunstenfestivaldesarts.be /archief/en/2002/spect/stl04.html (1165 words)

	Zeno's Conscience: A Novel (Vintage International) home Mortgage and repair how to book.
		Zeno Cosini is the heir to a prosperous merchant, and so he has no need to work.
		Zeno tells us about his father's death, the story of his courtship of Ada and his marriage to Ada's ugly (cross-eyed)sister Augusta, a wonderful woman who loves Zeno very much, although he cheats on her constantly.
		Zeno is really a puzzle: sometimes he's despicable, sometimes he's noble and wise.
	www.buyhomerepairbooks.com /books/isbn0375727760.html (1084 words)

	Kalfus on Svevo
		The novel was the work of the second great writer living in Trieste in the years before and after the First World War; the first was Svevo's friend James Joyce, who shared his modernist passion for unraveling the knotted workings of the ordinary mind.
		I assume that Svevo chose it as a reference to Zeno's Paradox, whose runner is declared to cover half a race's distance in a given time, half of the remaining distance in half that time, and so on, an infinite progression the prevents him from ever reaching his destination.
		Thus Svevo's Zeno constantly frustrates himself through half-measures: the crucial business deal he can't close, the affair of the heart he can't consummate.
	www.postroadmag.com /Issue_2/Recommendations2/R.Kalfus.SVEVO.html (252 words)

	Filmfestivals . com - Cannes 2001
		Zeno is alone, and still mourning the loss of his father, who died over a year ago.
		Loosely based on two chapters from Italo Svevo's La coscienza di Zeno (The Confessions of Zeno), Le Parole revolves around the romantic indecision of a lonely young man, Zeno, torn between his desire for two sisters.
		Fearing that time is passing him by, Zeno decides he should get a job in commerce and finance despite the fact that he is a talented writer and he finds the business ambience stifling.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/cannes/film.pl?id=3023&site=us (395 words)

	books about: zeno (philosophical international contemporary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is a great introduction to the modern reaction to Zeno's paradoxes.
		The confessions of Zeno is an amazingly insightful novel about the folly of humanity, our amazing capacity for self delusion and our lack of understanding of our place in the great drama that is life.
		Zeno is an elderly merchant in Trieste before World War One, who owes his success and money more to inheritance than to ability, who approaching the end of his life consults with a psychiatrist...
	www.very-clever.com /books/zeno (762 words)

	Zeno's Conscience: A Novel (Vintage International) - Italo Svevo, William Weaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Comment: The confessions of Zeno is an amazingly insightful novel about the folly of humanity, our amazing capacity for self delusion and our lack of understanding of our place in the great drama that is life.
		Zeno is an elderly merchant in Trieste before World War One, who owes his success and money more to inheritance than to ability, who approaching the end of his life consults with a psychiatrist to cure his long term debilitating illnesses.
		However, the great thing about this book, and why I really do think that it is, as the title of this review suggests, a "great unsung classic" is because the comedy in the novel is not a means unto itself, but rather to set the reader up for the deeper currents of thought running throughout.
	www.bookswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-0375727760.html (492 words)

	Amazon.com: Zeno's Conscience: A Novel (Vintage International): Books: Italo Svevo,William Weaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When Zeno's despised analyst encourages him to keep a journal (write a memoir), Zeno does so even though he is lazy and fools himself into believing exactly what it is he wants to believe.
		Zeno will begin a sentence telling us he still loves Ada very much and then end it by saying he feels nothing for her at all.
		And still Zeno is not an annoying man: you can feel his desire to be like the other people, he knows what he is doing and at the end we see that he can act, but only when the stimuli are strong enough.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375727760?v=glance (2338 words)

	SVEVO, ITALO. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His fiction is psychological and introspective, his characters mainly narcissistic, and his style witty.
		His best-known work is La coscienza di Zeno (1923, tr.
		The Confessions of Zeno, 1930); also translated is Una burla riuscita (1928, tr.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/sv/Svevo-It.html (66 words)

	TIME.com: Italian Tycoon's Book -- Jul 28, 1930 -- Page 1
		Zeno Cosini, only child of a rich Trieste merchant, very early in his boyhood be came so preoccupied with introspection that he was soon a hypochondriac.
		Zeno instantly fell in love with the most beautiful, but he had such a genius for putting his foot in it and re fusing to realize it that he only made her dislike him.
		Their marriage turned out strangely well, though Zeno loved his wife most when he was with his mistress.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,739963,00.html (583 words)

	Zeno's Conscience:Svevo, Italo; Sachs, Dalya; Sachs, Dalya M.:0810112884:eCampus.com
		Zeno's Conscience (formerly known in English as The Confessions of Zeno) redefined the tradition of the first-person novel when it was published in 1923, and still stands out today as one of the most unique -- and uniquely charming -- European masterpieces of the twentieth century.
		After his psychiatrist suggests writing as therapy, it becomes as indispensable a habit as the lifelong vice for which Zeno is most famous -- his numerous attempts to quit smoking with each spent cigarette, justifying the next one before the ashes are cold.
		Zeno's Conscience was championed by Svevo's friend James Joyce who greatly admired Svevo's work and was instrumental in bringing his writings to the attention of the public.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0810112884 (194 words)

	Amazon.fr : Zeno's Conscience: Livres en anglais: Italo Svevo,Elizabeth Hardwick,William Weaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Italo Svevo tells the story of a hapless, doubting, guilt-ridden man paralyzed by fits of despair and ecstasy and tickled by his own cleverness.
		His doctor advises him, as a form of therapy, to write his memoirs; and in doing so, Zeno reconstructs and ultimately reshapes the events of his life into a palatable reality for himself–a reality, however, founded on compromise, delusion, and rationalization.
		Absorbing and devilishly entertaining, Zeno’s Conscience is a pioneering psychoanalytic novel by one of the most important Italian literary figures of the 20th century.
	www.amazon.fr /Zeno-s-Conscience-Italo-Svevo/dp/0375413308 (405 words)

	kunstenFESTIVALdesarts - Confessions of Zeno
		With each of his visits – and this is his fifth – he uses the simplicity of a line or the generosity of a movement to reveal his poetical and critical side with regard to the world and people.
		This unconventional opera mixes film projected as it is being made with song, live music by Kevin Volans with the actor’s performance, and puppet manipulators with the tones of a string quartet.
		If Zeno was imprisoned in his relationship with his father, he has just left his bedroom of sleeplessness and is wandering through the streets of Trieste.
	www.kunstenfestivaldesarts.be /archief/en/2002/spect/stc04.html (202 words)

	Italo Svevo
		Italian novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, whose best-known novel is The Confessions of Zeno (1923).
		In The Confessions of Zeno Svevo's interest in Freud was seen in his first-person narrator, Zeno Cosini, who writes his autobiography for his psychoanalyst, Doctor S, to find the origin of his smoking habit.
		La conscienza di Zeno, 1923 - The Confessions of Zeno (trans.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /svevo.htm (1045 words)

	Italian Books - Le Terrae
		The pliant protagonist of Italo Svevo's 1923 classic Confessions of Zeno is, among other things, a bumbling businessman, a guilt-ridden adulterer, and a hardcore nicotine addict.
		For the novel is in fact a dense and comically excruciating exercise in self-revelation, undertaken by the narrator as part of his psychoanalytic treatment.
		Zeno never finds a cure for his affliction, which seems to be a strain of continental angst.
	www.leterrae.com /books.htm (1753 words)

	Powell's Books - Zeno's Conscience (Everyman's Library) by Italo Svevo
		The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist.
		Here are Zeno's interminable attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the beautiful yet unresponsive Ada, his unexpected — and unexpectedly happy — marriage to Ada's homely sister Augusta, and his affair with a shrill-voiced aspiring singer.
		Relating these misadventures with wry wit and perspicacity at once unblinking and compassionate, Zeno's Conscience is a miracle of psychological realism.
	powells.com /biblio?isbn=0375413308 (517 words)

	Carlo Ardito, playwright - author of 'Confessions of Zeno' and other plays from Amber Lane Press
		Professor Brian Moloney’s study of his dramatisation of Italo Svevo’s novel Confessions of Zeno has been published in Writers and Performers From the Time of Dante to Pirandello (Edwin Mellen Press, 1992).
		In 1999 he produced new translations of four plays by Pirandello (Calder Publications Ltd), and in the same year he was awarded the Gold Plaque of the Rudolf Valentino International Prize for his services to the theatre.
		Da Ponte’s attitude to life and art was quite unlike that of the eponymous anti-hero of Confessions of Zeno, whose comically tortured mind and final escape from the attentions of a Freudian analyst is in itself an affirmation of the power of survival of the human spirit.
	members.aol.com /amberlanepress/ardito_carlo.htm (610 words)

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