Italo Svevo  

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Italo Svevo (1861 – 1928) was an Italian businessman and author of novels such as Confessions of Zeno.

Selected works

Novels

• Una Vita (1892). A Life, trans. Archibald Colquhoun (1963).
• Senilità (1898). As a Man Grows Older, trans. Beryl de Zoete (1932); later as Emilio's Carnival, trans. Beth Archer Brombert (2001).
• La Coscienza di Zeno (1923). Confessions of Zeno, trans. Beryl de Zoete (1930); later as Zeno's Conscience, trans. William Weaver (2003).

Novellas

• La novella del buon vecchio e della bella fanciulla (1926). The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl.
• Una burla riuscita (1926). A Perfect Hoax, trans. J. G. Nichols (2003).

Short story collections

• La novella del buon vecchio e della bella fanciulla, e altre prose inedite e postume (1929, posthumous). The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and Other Stories, trans. L. Collison-Morley (1930).
• Corto viaggio sentimentale e altri racconti inediti (1949, posthumous). Short Sentimental Journey and Other Stories, trans. Beryl de Zoete, L. Collison-Morley and Ben Johnson (1967).

Other

• Saggi e pagine sparse (1954, posthumous). Essays and Scattered Pages.
• Commedie (1960, posthumous). Dramatic works.
• Lettere (1966, posthumous). Correspondence with Eugenio Montale.
• Further Confessions of Zeno (1969, posthumous). Trans. Ben Johnson and P. N. Furbank. Fragments of a sequel to La coscienza di Zeno. Includes: "The Old Old Man", "An Old Man's Confessions", "Umbertino", "A Contract", "This Indolence of Mine", and Regeneration: A Comedy in Three Acts.
• A Very Old Man: Stories (2022, posthumous). Trans. Frederika Randall. Includes: "The Contract", "The Confessions of a Very Old Man", "Umbertino", "My Leisure", and "Foreword".