A Very Old Man: Stories

A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno's Conscience.

A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, after the international success of Zeno’s Conscience in 1923.

Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start—aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness,...