Italo Svevo: A Perfect Hoax | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781847497758 | A Perfect Hoax | Italo Svevo | Taschenbuch | Alma Classics 101 Pages

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Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing littérateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of self-delusion, spurred on by Gaia's succession of ruses.

In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo - who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age - parodies elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological portrait of a person who has lost touch with reality.

Über den Autor

Born in Trieste to a Jewish German father and an Italian mother, Italo Svevo (1861-1928) worked for his father-in-law's paint business for most of his life and was unknown as a writer until the 1923 publication of Zeno's Conscience, which is now considered a classic of Italian fiction.

Zusammenfassung

Described by the TLS as 'an elegant and hilarious funny story'

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Alma Classics 101 Pages
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781847497758
ISBN-10:	1847497756
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Svevo, Italo
Übersetzung:	Nichols, J. G.
Hersteller:	Alma Books Ltd Alma Classics 101 Pages
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 126 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Italo Svevo
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.11.2018
Gewicht:	0,13 kg