This protagonist, a businessman from Trieste, blames cigarettes for his incompetence.
This protagonist, a businessman from Trieste, blames cigarettes for his incompetence. He believes the most important event of his life to be the death of his father and finds in Giovanni Malfenti, a business mentor and father- substitute. Despite his love for Giovanni's daughter Ada, he marries her sister. In an attempt to cure him of his smoking habit, he visits Dr. S., who instructs him to write his memoirs as a psychoanalytical exercise. For 10 points—name this protagonist whose Confessions are the subject of a work by Italo Svevo.
This protagonist, a businessman from Trieste, blames cigarettes for his incompetence.
{Zeno} Cosini