Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo, 1st English Edition, 1930, Very Good

Svevo, Italo. Confessions of Zeno (London: Putnam, 1930).

English, First English Edition, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 9" x 6 1/4," 412 pp.

ISBN: N/A

Very Good, brown patterned cloth-covered boards with black lettering on front and spine. Covers have moderate age toning, slight soiling, and slightly bumped tips, else clean and intact, binding tight. Pages have small spots of foxing throughout and browning on endpapers, else clean and intact. A classic of Italian literature by Italo Svevo (1861-1928), the pseudonym of Aron Hector Schmitz, an Italian and Austro-Hungarian author. Confessions of Zeno is the English title for Zeno's Conscience, a fictional collection of diary entries kept by the titular Zeno. Zeno was ordered by his doctor to keep a diary for psychoanalysis. Zeno writes about numerous aspects of his life, including his ailing father, meeting his wife, his business ventures, and his smoking habit. However, an introductory note by Zeno's doctor says that his diary contains both truths and falsehoods. Translated from the original Italian into English by Beryl de Zoete.