Italo Svevo's early novel Senilita (1898) remained unknown for many
years until James Joyce encountered the novelist in Trieste and
came to admire Senilita as a preeminent modern Italian novel. Joyce
helped to launch Svevo's career, and years later Svevo achieved
great fame with his masterpiece, Confessions of Zeno. In Senilita,
Svevo tells the story of the amorous entanglement of Emilio, a
failed writer already old at thirty-five, and Angiolina, a
seductively beautiful but promiscuous young woman. A study in
jealousy and self-torment, the novel traces the intoxicating effect
of a narcissistic and amoral woman on an indecisive daydreamer who
vacillates between guilt and moral smugness. The novel is suffused
with a tragic sense of existence, and the unbreachable distance
between one consciousness and another. Svevo's unmistakably modern
voice subtly captures rapid shifts in mood and intention,
exploiting irony, indirection, and multiple points of view to
reveal Emilio's increasing anguish as he comes to recognize the
dissonance between himself and his world.
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