Confessions of Zeno

'Italy's first modernist ... a marvellous writer, unjustly neglected. Svevo is a master.' - The New Yorker The cult classic discovered and championed by James Joyce, Confessions of Zeno is a miracle of psychological realism from one of the most important figures in modern Italian literary history. A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination, long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce, Musil, Proust and Kafka. When the vain, obsessive and guilt-ridden Zeno seeks help for