Zeno's Conscience: A Confession in Analysis

Zeno Cosini is a man who cannot stop smoking, cannot decide whom to marry, and cannot quite tell the truth—even to himself. In sessions with his psychoanalyst, Dr. S., he pours out his life story: his rivalry with his dead father, his chaotic courtship of the beautiful but fragile Ada, his eventual marriage to her sensible sister Augusta, and his long affair with a young singer. Through his confessions, Zeno reveals a man perpetually at war with his own resolutions, yet strangely at peace with his failures. This modern retelling preserves Svevo’s wry humor and psychological depth while rendering his prose in clear, contemporary English. Part of Timeless Classics.