Confessions of Zeno / La Coscienza di Zeno

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Who's got love for this book? Also, Senelita / Emelio's Carnival

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― remy bean (bean), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious."

― remy bean (bean), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"There are three things I always forget. Names... faces... and the third I can't recall."

― remy bean (bean), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

This is one of those books I love so much that I'm always pressing my copy on friends and never getting it back. Thanks for reminding me it's time to buy it yet again!

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

for some reason recently i bought that 'hoax' book of his instead of this when i had the chance.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't read Svevo in ages. Thanks for planting the idea.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a beautiful paperback edition/new translation published by New York Review of Books a couple of years ago.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

the edition ('zeno's conscience') was beautiful, but i found the translation by normally wonderful william weaver) stultifyingly literal, and much less humorous than the earlier trans. unless you mean some other ed....?

― remy bean (bean), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

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― remy bean (bean), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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