Italo Svevo

Italo Svevo (1861–1928) was the pen name of Aron Hector Schmitz, born into a Jewish-Italian family in Trieste—then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a cosmopolitan crossroads of Italian, German, and Slavic cultures that shaped his literary sensibility. He worked for decades in his father-in-law's paint manufacturing business while writing fiction in his spare time. His first two novels, A Life and As a Man Grows Older, were ignored by the Italian literary establishment, and he abandoned writing for nearly twenty years. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Confessions of Zeno.