Mario Lunetta Boeken

Eleventh book in the author's Rougon-Macquart cycle.

Op verzoek van zijn psychiater houdt een oudere man boek van zijn strijd met slechte gewoontes.

First published in 1893, this novel is concerned with the bourgeois soul and its inability to will or act. The heroes are typically men of business, but with cultural pretensions and he depicts them in their free time when they are not working.

Klassieke roman over een naar ongrijpbaar geluk hunkerende vrouw, die zich teleurgesteld door de nuchterheid en middelmatigheid van haar man, een dorpsdokter, in roekeloze liefdesverhoudingen stort, hetgeen tot haar ondergang leidt.

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 turns darker, as Emilio's jealous persistence in his folly - against his friends' and devoted sister's advice, and even his own best knowledge - may lead to severe consequences in his other relationships. Marked by deep humanity and earthy humor, by psychological insight and an elegant simplicity of style, As a Man Grows Older (Senilità, in Italian; the English title was the suggestion of Svevo's great friend and admirer, James Joyce) is a brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation.

Un breve viaggio di lavoro è l’occasione che l’anziano signor Aghios attendeva da tempo. Finalmente staccatosi dalla moglie, può concedersi di assaporare piccole, innocue promesse di libertà. Ma è una libertà che si sostanzia di sensazioni e di pensieri, più che di azioni concrete: il protagonista senile di questo piccolo capolavoro, rimasto incompiuto, è insieme affascinato e distante da ciò che vorrebbe afferrare. Tornano qui, in una forma esemplare ma rinnovata, i temi che furono cari a Svevo: il bisogno di vivere e l’incapacità di aderire al reale senza dolorose scissioni; l’idea dell’eros come trasgressione al sano comportamento borghese; l’influenza delle teorie psicoanalitiche.