You might with advantage take out your map of modern literature and mark on it the name of Italo Svevo...for Svevo and his novel, Confessions of Zeno...will henceforth be on other people's maps, and it is well that the atlases of the enlightened should agree. (Italo Svevo)

You might with advantage take out your map of modern literature and mark on it the name of Italo Svevo...for Svevo and his novel, Confessions of Zeno...will henceforth be on other people's maps, and it is well that the atlases of the enlightened should agree.

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