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Zeno's Conscience Italo Svevo
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

As he fails to continue with his visits, Doctor S. Stendhal, The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet. Zeno Cosini is assigned by his psychotherapist to keep a personal journal in order to reflect about the events of his life. Posted by Rustic Etruscan at 1:48 PM on May 21. Herman Broch, The Sleepwalkers and Death of Virgil. Just think: Italo Svevo (whose novel Zeno's Conscience is thoroughly rooted in Trieste), the poet Umberto Saba, and of course James Joyce who taught English in Trieste. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson Women in Love, D. The parallels I was interested enough that I do intend to try more — probably The Conscience of Zeno, because I am pretty sure I have a copy. I'd love to join, but given how sluggish my reading has been (I've spent weeks on Zeno's Conscience despite its not being difficult at all), I don't think I'll be able to keep up. But I liked it enough to get my hand's on Zeno's Conscience yesterday. Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience.