Svevo

/ ˈsvevo /

noun

1. SvevoItalo18611928MItalianWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer Italo (ɪˈtalo), original name Ettore Schnitz. 1861–1928, Italian novelist and short-story writer, best known for the novel Confessions of Zeno (1923)

Example Sentences

Conspicuously read Italo Svevo’s 1898 novel “As a Man Grows Older” in a public place if you are, in fact, a man growing older — partly in order to see if it prompts interesting conversations with strangers but mostly because it is simply a funny thing to do?

From New York Times

Albert Camus, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Italo Svevo are among the male writers who get equally thoughtful treatment.

From Washington Post

They belong in the same category as Samuel Beckett, Italo Svevo and Federico Fellini.

From Washington Post

Among his students was Italo Svevo, the pen name of the Jewish writer and businessman Ettore Schmitz, the possible inspiration for Leopold Bloom.

From New York Times

While Joyce and Svevo are woven into Trieste’s skeptical and ironic fabric, d’Annunzio “doesn’t have anything to do” with the city’s literary tradition, said Marina Nadali, 77, a retired literature teacher.

From New York Times