Summer Reading Series: Italo Svevo
Monday, August 08, 2005
Literary critic James Wood pays tribute to Italo Svevo in today’s edition our special Summer Reading Series on underappreciated literature. In 1907, Svevo hired an English tutor, who turned out to be a young, unpublished James Joyce. And it’s rumored that Svevo inspired Joyce’s legendary character Leopold Bloom. Svevo's masterpiece, Confessions of Zeno, was published in 1923.
Music:
“Conference Call” composed by David Hirschfelder (off the Hanging Up Soundtrack)
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