As a man grows older
By: [by] Italo Svevo [pseud.] Translated by Beryl de Zoete. With an introd. by Stanislaus Joyce, and an essay on Svevo by Edouard Roditi.
Contributors: De Zoete, Beryl, 1884-1962, tr.
Series: The Modern readers series
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1949
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 245
Description: Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina--except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins as a comedy of infatuated misunderstanding ends in tragedy, as Emilio's jealous persistence in his folly--against his friends' and devoted sister's advice, and even his own best knowledge--leads to the loss of the one person whom, too late, he realizes he truly loves.