Perfect Hoax
Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of self-delusion, spurred on by Gaia's succession of ruses.In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo - who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age - parodies elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological portrai…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7145-4934-7
- EAN: 9780714549347
- Produktnummer: 35581405
- Verlag: Alma Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 516 KB
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