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  • Published: 19 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241372609
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $22.99
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Zeno's Conscience





A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century

This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a family and a hilarious account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his business or make sense of his private life.

A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination, Zeno's Conscience has provoked enormous affection in its readers both in Italian and English since its first publication in the 1920s.

  • Published: 19 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241372609
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

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Praise for Zeno's Conscience

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom

London Review of Books
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