The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl |
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Author:
| Svevo, Italo |
Series title: | The Art of the Novella Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-933633-89-3 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
Publisher: | Melville House Publishing
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $10.00 |
Book Description:
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The fable-like story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman is a distillation of Italo Svevo's concerns: individual conscience versus social convention and the cost of desire. His novella is a marvel of psychological insight, following the man's vacillations and tortuous self-justifications to their tragicomic end. It is presented here in a translation first commissioned and published by Virginia Woolfe for her Hogarth Press.
The fable-like story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman is a distillation of Italo Svevo's concerns: individual conscience versus social convention and the cost of desire. His novella is a marvel of psychological insight, following the man's vacillations and tortuous self-justifications to their tragicomic end. It is presented here in a translation first commissioned and published by Virginia Woolfe for her Hogarth Press.