Alfonso the bank clerk wants to be a poet and seems to be falling in love with Annetta, the vain and arrogant daughter of his boss. But the emptiness of his attempts at both writing and love lead to an ironic and painful conclusion.A Life is the gruelling tale of the frustrated existence of a bank clerk with a poetic soul. The artistic aspirations of the protagonist and the emptiness of his daily life become tragic in the great divide between what he wants and what he actually has...
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Italo Svevo (1861-1928) was born in Trieste. At the age of thirty-one he wrote and published at his own expense, A Life. He later became a good friend of James Joyce,...
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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 320 ● ISBN 9781908968777 ● Bestandsgrootte 0.8 MB ● Vertaler Archibald Colquhoun ● Uitgeverij Pushkin Press ● Stad London ● Land GB ● Gepubliceerd 2006 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 2536097 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Sociale DRM