Italo svevo biography

Italian and Austro-Hungarian businessman, playwright, and writer (–)

Aron Hector Schmitz^[1] (19 December &#;&#; 13 September ), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian:[ˈiːtaloˈzvɛːvo]), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.^[1]

A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce,^[2] Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (), which became a widely appreciated classic of Italian literature.^[1] He was also the cousin of the Italian academic Steno Tedeschi.^[3]

Early life

Born in Trieste (at the time in the Austrian Empire, then in Austria-Hungary since ) as Aron Ettore Schmitz^[4] to a Jewish German father and an Italian mother, Svevo was one of seven children, and grew up enjoying a passion for literature from a young age,