A Perfect Hoax (101 Pages series - Alma Classics)
- Verlag ALMA CLASSICS
- Schriftsteller Svevo, Italo
- ISBN13 9781847497758
- ISBN10 1847497756
- Sammlung GARDNERS
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2018
- Sprache Englisch
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English LiteraturA Perfect Hoax (101 Pages series - Alma Classics)
... a wonderful comedy where the resourcefulness of the vain and creative mind is aided by a variety of unlikely circumstances in its desperate effort to reconstruct self-esteem and serenity - Tim Parks
Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of self-delusion, spurred on by Gaia's succession of ruses. In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo - who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age - parodies elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological portrait of a person who has lost touch with reality.
Ver Descripción del producto- Verlag ALMA CLASSICS
- Schriftsteller Svevo, Italo
- ISBN13 9781847497758
- ISBN10 1847497756
- Sammlung GARDNERS
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2018
- Sprache Englisch