by Italo Svevo · Wagenbach · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783803123688
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«Ein Mann wird älter» (Senilità) is the novel by Italo Svevo, published by Wagenbach in paperback (312 pages, in German).
Emilio Brentani, a thirty-five-year-old insurance clerk, lives in Trieste with his sister Amalia and avoids falling in love. The arrival of Angiolina, a vital and attractive young woman, upends his precautions and drags him into a turbulent relationship of doubts and contradictions. The novel reflects with irony on old age, love, and insecurity.
Novel originally published in 1898 as «Senilità»; this German edition appeared in 2000, with a translation by Piero Rismondo and an introduction by Daniele Del Giudice.
A work for those who enjoy Italian classics and psychological portraits from the late nineteenth century.
Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
