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Svevo

British  
/ ˈsvevo /

noun

  1. Italo (ɪˈtalo), original name Ettore Schnitz. 1861–1928, Italian novelist and short-story writer, best known for the novel Confessions of Zeno (1923)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They belong in the same category as Samuel Beckett, Italo Svevo and Federico Fellini.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020

Near where I live stands the old dwelling of Italo Svevo, the Italian writer and factory owner.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2019

Like Appiah himself, Svevo had a complex, shifting, multilingual identity.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2018

In Trieste, Svevo wrote “Zeno’s Conscience,” his best-known novel, which was published in 1923.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2015

Trieste’s greatest native writer, Italo Svevo, whose early career was marked by failure, has acquired a similarly ardent following.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2011

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