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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."

L'indipendente, 1898

The beginning of the friendship

  • 1905, Trieste
  • since 1901 in England
  • 1912, Joyce on Il Piccolo della Sera
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