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Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian: [ˈiːtalo ˈzvɛːvo]), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
Italo Svevo (born Dec. 19, 1861, Trieste, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]—died Sept. 13, 1928, Motta di Livenza, Italy) was an Italian novelist and short-story writer, a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy.
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Italo Svevo, pseudonimo di Aron Hector Schmitz ( Trieste, 19 dicembre 1861 – Motta di Livenza, 13 settembre 1928 ), è stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo italiano . Cresciuto in un contesto mitteleuropeo, ha tratto il suo pseudonimo dalle due culture, italiana e tedesca, che formarono la sua educazione.
Una guida completa sulla vita e le opere di Italo Svevo, il romanziere triestino influenzato dalla psicanalisi e dal realismo francese. Scopri il suo pseudonimo, i suoi temi, le sue opere principali e le sue frasi celebri.
A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.
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Biography. Italo Svevo was born Ettore Schmitz in Trieste in 1861. His father was a successful businessman. Svevo was one of sixteen children, though only eight of the children (including Svevo) survived into adulthood. When he was twelve his father sent him to study in Germany where he became fluent in German.
Jun 8, 2018 · Learn about Italo Svevo, one of the first Italian novelists to apply psychoanalysis to literature. Find out about his life, his friendship with James Joyce, his novels, and his pseudonym.
