Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the
conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into
thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing
house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten
novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty
years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of
self-delusion, spurred on by Gaia's succession of ruses. In this
tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo - who
himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age - parodies
elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological
portrait of a person who has lost touch with reality.
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