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A perfect hoax / Italo Svevo ; translated by J.G. Nichols ; [foreword by Tim Parks].
LIBRA PQ4841.C482 B813 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Svevo, Italo, 1861-1928.
- Series:
- 100 pages
- Standardized Title:
- Burla riuscita. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Novelists--Fiction.
- Novelists.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 84 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hesperus, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Translation of: Una burla riuscita.
- Summary:
- Mario Samigli is nearing his sixties; he has all but given up his cherished aspirations as a writer and smiles at the world through his one remaining literary outlet--fables. When a traveling salesman with a taste for practical jokes persuades him that a Viennese publishing company wants to translate his early failed novel, Mario becomes caught up in a fantasy of success and fame. A Perfect Hoax follows the elaborate prank as it escalates, forcing Mario blindly down a road that can only lead to disappointment. Austro-Italian writer Italo Svevo (1861-1929) is best remembered for his modernist novel The Confessions of Zeno.
- ISBN:
- 1843910586
- OCLC:
- 52455958
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