Italo Svevo
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Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
Portrait of Italo Svevo
Italo Svevo statue in front of the Public Library in Trieste
Blue plaque at 67 Charlton Church Lane, Charlton, London SE7 7AB, London Borough of Greenwich
First edition of Senilità
Leopold Bloom
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Leopold Paula Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale,
Italo Svevo
…Cosini, the book's hero and unreliable narrator, mirrored Svevo himself, being a businessman fascinated by Freudian theory. Svevo was also a model for Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Joyce's seminal novel Ulysses. Zeno's Conscience never looks outside the narrow confines of Trieste, much like Joyce's work, which…
Plaque in memory of Bloom in his (fictional) ancestral home, Szombathely
Zero Mostel in costume as Bloom for the play Ulysses in Nighttown (1958)