Italo Svevo
Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright
Died when: 66 years 269 days (800 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian: ['i?talo 'zv??vo]), was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.
He was also the cousin of the Italian academic Steno Tedeschi.
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