Author: Italo Svevo

Cited by

• D.J. Enright (1)
  • IN: Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor (1969) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A small bird was was being strangled by a hawk had only time for one last loud protesting cry of indignation. But in that cry, brief as it was, it felt it had fulfilled its being, and its little soul made boast of it as it flew up towards the sun and was lost in the azure sky.
    FROM: A Perfect Hoax, (1929), Book, Italy
• Will Self (1)
  • IN: The Butt (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Who knows, whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined?...
    FROM: Confessions of Zeno, (1923), Novel, Italy