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idgey's review against another edition
challenging
funny
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
hannahnats's review against another edition
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
marschwartz's review against another edition
funny
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
sim0__'s review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
_noemi_'s review against another edition
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
3.75
rebii05's review against another edition
2.0
farmi leggere un libro su un uomo che si lamenta per 400+ pagine dovrebbe essere punibile dalla legge. Freud la pagherai.
cam_flower's review against another edition
challenging
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
jen52's review against another edition
4.0
Well, it's quite the selfish, dishonest narrator that can keep me reading for this long. As many say, the middle of the book and towards the end read more slowly. I don't think this is an accident. I think it helps people the reader through the story at the best rate for reflection. Zeno is crazy. But we all have some Zeno in us and a failure to recognize that is a failure to view ourselves as human.
blueyorkie's review against another edition
5.0
The Zeno Consciousness is the last of the three novels written by Italo Svevo. It was published in 1923 and finally brought fame to its author thanks to the support of writers like Valery Larbaud and James Joyce. The latter knew Italo Svevo in 1907 during a stay in Trieste, where Svevo (whose real name was Ettore Schmitz) was his pupil and friend. A few years later, Joyce made one of the models of the character Leopold Bloom in his novel Ulysses.
Zeno's Consciousness is one of the first novels to talk about psychoanalysis. Svevo even makes the spring of the book since it is under the command of his psychoanalyst that Zeno, the narrator, undertakes to write down (hum) a few years of his life. So, even if it is not strictly speaking the story of psychoanalysis, we can consider it close. But this is not the only interest of the book: full of finesse and naivety at the same time, this character of Zeno is a formidable storyteller of his own life. His entourage and the society in which he evolves in this city, Trieste, are a crossroads of European commerce of the time and a town whose decline is near.
Zeno's Consciousness is one of the first novels to talk about psychoanalysis. Svevo even makes the spring of the book since it is under the command of his psychoanalyst that Zeno, the narrator, undertakes to write down (hum) a few years of his life. So, even if it is not strictly speaking the story of psychoanalysis, we can consider it close. But this is not the only interest of the book: full of finesse and naivety at the same time, this character of Zeno is a formidable storyteller of his own life. His entourage and the society in which he evolves in this city, Trieste, are a crossroads of European commerce of the time and a town whose decline is near.