num_pages: 437
description: 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.
language: English
title: Zeno's Conscience
titlecomplete: Zeno's Conscience
characters: Zeno Cosini
genres: Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Italy, Italian Literature, Novels, Psychology, Fiction, Classics, School
ratings_count: 25387
places: Italy, Trieste
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd