Svevo
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They belong in the same category as Samuel Beckett, Italo Svevo and Federico Fellini.
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020
Near where I live stands the old dwelling of Italo Svevo, the Italian writer and factory owner.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2019
Another is the writer Italo Svevo, born Aron Ettore Schmitz in the city of Trieste, Italy, in 1861, a friend of James Joyce and a model for Leopold Bloom.
From Slate • Sep. 14, 2018
Next to it, another sign marks the popular lunch spot as a stop on the literary “ Italo Svevo Itinerary,” for devotees of that titan of Italian modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2015
The critic John Simon, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called the biography “very nearly perfect,” a grand reward for a writer, Svevo, who deserved it.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2014
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