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A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house... -
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo 9781857152494
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04The modern Italian classic discovered and championed by James Joyce, ZENO'S CONSCIENCE is a marvel of psychological insight, published here in a fine new translation by William Weaver - the first in... -
Zeno's Conscience Italo Svevo 9780241372609
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth centuryWhen vain, obsessive and guilt-ridden Zeno Cosini seeks help for his neuroses, his... -
A Very Old Man: Stories by Italo Svevo
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375939Author Italo SvevoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Zeno's Conscience: A Novel by Italo Svevo 9780375727764
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727764Author Italo SvevoFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
As A Man Grows Older Italo Svevo 9780940322844
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322844Author Italo SvevoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Emilio's Carnival: Senilita by Italo Svevo 9780300090499
Booksplease Price: £29.69Italo Svevo's early novel Senilita (1898) remained unknown for many years until James Joyce encountered the novelist in Trieste and came to admire Senilita as a preeminent modern Italian novel. Joyce... -
Memoir of Italo Svevo by Livia Veneziani Svevo 9781870352406
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870352406Author Livia Veneziani SvevoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint LibrisPublisher Libris -
Life Into Art: Italo Svevo and the Novel by Peter Davies 9781910996508
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996508Author Peter DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher... -
Confessions of Zeno: The cult classic discovered and championed by James Joyce by Italo Svevo 9781922491527
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922491527Author Italo SvevoFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Actuel EditionsPublisher Actuel... -
Confessions of Zeno (riverrun editions): a beautiful new edition of the Italian classic Italo Svevo 9781787474178
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last'A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S... -
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda Deborah Amberson 9781907975264
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature investigates the central nexus in the work of Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda and considers it as evidence of a programmatic attempt to... -
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda by Deborah Amberson 9780367602536
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.23Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature investigates the central nexus in the work of Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda and considers it as evidence of a programmatic attempt to... -
Kafka's Italian Progeny by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski 9781487506308
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.01While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka's Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity to... -
Laughter from Realism to Modernism: Misfits and Humorists in Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda by Alberto Godioli 9781909662865
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04This book investigates the clash between social uniformity and personal anomalies as a key to understanding the functions of laughter in four major Italian authors from the early twentieth century,... -
Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands: The Challenge of Trieste by Marianna Deganutti 9781032213279
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland located at the intersection between the Latin, Germanic... -
James Joyce: A Guide to Research by Thomas Jackson Rice
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.58James Joyce: A Guide to Research, first published in 1982, is a selective annotated bibliography of works by and about James Joyce. It consists of three parts: the primary bibliography - which... -
All the Tiny Moments Blazing: A Literary Guide to Suburban London by Ged Pope
Booksplease Price: £30.82The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo... -
Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini by Emma Bond
Booksplease Price: £83.04This book examines Italo Svevo, Giorgio Pressburger and Giuliana Morandini, all make use of individual 'infected' or suppressed voices within their texts which unfold through illness, silence and... -
Laughter from Realism to Modernism: Misfits and Humorists in Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda Alberto Godioli 9780367600754
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book investigates the clash between social uniformity and personal anomalies as a key to understanding the functions of laughter in four major Italian authors from the early twentieth century,... -
American and European Literary Imagination by John McCormick
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Western culture is composed of a subtle and complex mixture of influences: religious, philosophical, linguistic, political, social, and sociological. American culture is a particular strain, but... -
A Gallery of Mirrors: Observations on Novelists and Poets by Harry Levin
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The essays in this classic volume range from broad concerns with critical theory and aesthetic formulation to specific analysis of forms and texts. Levin discusses such matters as the symbolic... -
Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse by Martin McLaughlin
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34This book presents a collection of twelve essays on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy. It focuses on well-known writers and... -
Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse: A Festschrift for John Woodhouse by Martin McLaughlin
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book presents a collection of twelve essays on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy. It focuses on well-known writers and... -
Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory Sherry Simon 9780415471527
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the... -
Italian Short Stories by Dimitri Vittorini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this... -
The Whole of Life by Jurg Laederach
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01""I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet.""--J?rg Laederach. With tongue resolutely in cheek, saxophonist, critic, poet, and... -
Freud and Italian Culture by Pierluigi Barrotta 9783039118472
RRP: £51.30Booksplease Price: £46.18This book explores the different ways in which psychoanalysis has been connected to various fields of Italian culture, such as literary criticism, philosophy and art history, as well as discussing... -
The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925 by Andrea Sartori 9783031188497
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy’s unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of... -
The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925 by Andrea Sartori 9783031188527
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy’s unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of... -
Appropriations of Literary Modernism in Media Art: Cultural Memory and the Dynamics of Estrangement by Jordis Lau 9783110720884
Booksplease Price: £79.75By analyzing appropriations of literary modernism in video, experimental film, and installation art, this study investigates works of media art as agents of cultural memory. While research recognizes... -
Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945 by Dr. Salvatore Pappalardo 9781501369964
Booksplease Price: £103.11When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and... -
Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945 by Dr. Salvatore Pappalardo 9781501369957
Booksplease Price: £33.84When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and... -
Die Pravention somatischer Fixierung: Eine Aufgabe fur den Hausarzt by K.-J. Dreibholz 9783540157595
Booksplease Price: £47.21So folgte eine Kur der anderen. Aber schon bald vergass man die neuroti- sche Ursache meiner Krankheit ...Es war ja kaum anders moglich: ich brachte meinen behandelnden Arzten grosses Vertrauen... -
Twentieth-Century Italian Drama: An Anthology by Jane House
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £67.18This work explores the best of contemporary Italian theatre, from Luigi Pirandello to Massimo Bontempelli. It covers the period from the end of the 19th century to the aftermath of World War II, and... -
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker... -
My Karst and My City and Other Essays by Scipio Slataper 9781487508227
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.56Scipio Slataper is one of the most prominent writers from the Italian town of Trieste. Before the onslaught of World War One, Trieste was a unique urban environment and the largest port in the... -
Journey to the Edge of Life 9798893380002
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer OEzlu. An unnamed writer embarks... -
Edoardo Weiss: The House That Freud Built by Paul Roazen 9781138509399
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Edoardo Weiss (1889-1970) was a favored disciple of Freud and is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy. Although he was the author of six books and over a hundred professional... -
Difficult Loves and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates...