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Ein Leben

Ein Leben

ClassicsLiterary Fiction
Pages
530
Published
2011
Language
German

Synopsis

Alfonso Nitti, a young intellectual, moves from the countryside to Trieste, seeking a more meaningful existence. He finds work at a bank but struggles with his ambitions and a sense of detachment from the world around him. His attempts to navigate social circles and a complicated affair with the bank owner's daughter lead him to a profound crisis of identity and purpose.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MelancholicReflectiveComplex
Anti-Hero

Genres

Classics Literary Fiction

About the author

I
Italo Svevo

Aron Ettore Schmitz (December 19, 1861 – September 13, 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian businessman and author of novels, plays, and short stories. Born in Trieste (then in Austria-Hungary) to a Jewish family, Italo Svevo (literally swabian Italian) wrote the classic novel La Coscienza di Zeno (rendered as Confessions of Zeno, or Zeno's Conscience) and self-published it in 1923. The work, showing the author's interest in the theories of Sigmund Freud, is writte...