As A Man Grows Older - Hardcover

Svevo, Italo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436508001 ISBN 13: 9780436508004

Publisher: Secker and Warburg, London, 1962

Synopsis

hardback with dustjacket (well preserved, but old adhesive tape browning to flaps, library bookplate and stamp to title, good

About this title

About the Author

Italo Svevo (1861-1928), whose given name was Ettore Schmitz, was born in Trieste into a Jewish family of Italian and German descent-as his pseudonym reflects. Svevo published two novels in the 1890s, A Life and As a Man Grows Older, but after they were dismissed by critics and ignored by the public, he abandoned literature and went to work in his father-in-law’s paint business. He returned to writing only after the young man whom he had hired to tutor him in English, James Joyce, asked to see his novels and expressed admiration for them. With Joyce’s support, he published The Confessions of Zeno in 1923 to international acclaim. Svevo had finished a new book (The Tale of the Good Old Man and of the Lovely Young Girl) and was at work on another when he was killed in a car crash in 1928.

James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published three books of poetry—A Jump Start, Woman Police Officer in Elevator, and Landscape with Chainsaw—and three collections of short stories, most recentlyBesieged (Selected Stories), of which the title story was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Language Notes

Text: English, Italian (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Secker and Warburg, London
• Publication date: 1962
• ISBN 10: 0436508001
• ISBN 13: 9780436508004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224