The relationship beetween James Joyce and Italo Svevo
What is the truth about Joyce's refusing?
"We travelled a long way together and Svevo is to my mind the first Italian novelist to introduce the technique of the interior monologue [...]. He was the Italian novelist with whom the generation born at the dawn of the new century can identify."
La Coscienza di Zeno
- 1922, La Coscienza di Zeno
- 1922, Ulysses
- 1924, Svevo writes a letter to Joyce
- 1925, letter from Paris
"Perché si dispera? Deve sapere ch'è di gran lunga il suo migliore libro."
Joyce to Svevo, Letters (1924)
Italo Svevo and his literary works
- 1892, Una Vita
- 1898, Senilità
"youthful naivety of language and style and found the title baffling and inappropriate, but appreciated Svevo's observation of the inner working of mind."
The beginning of the friendship
- 1905, Trieste
- since 1901 in England
- 1912, Joyce on Il Piccolo della Sera