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Confessions of Zeno

Italo Svevo

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1923
Originally in
Originally in Italian
Pages
Pages 410

A hypochondriac writes his psychoanalyst a memoir circling failed vows to quit smoking, a wife he settled for after losing her sister, and a shady deal. He concludes he is not sick, only alive, in a world about to blow itself up.

I am the doctor who is sometimes spoken of in rather unflattering terms in this novel.
Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo

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