Year: 2003
Type: book-review
Abstract: Svevo's entire work, from its first rather sketchy emergence in Una Vita to its full- fledged materialization in La coscienza di Zeno, a development that may be sum- marized as man's constant search for symbiosis with the other.Perhaps Minghelli ought to have elaborated more on the sharp irony inherent in Zeno's fate, as he eventually chooses to step outside the shadow of the other at the end of a novel that seemingly stages the fable of man and the Mammoth in each of its eight chap- ters.It is nevertheless Minghelli's merit to have intuitively perceived the rich
Source: Quaderni d italianistica
Language: English
Subfield: General Arts and Humanities
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4300104859