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Sapere di scrivere. Svevo e gli ordigni de La coscienza di Zeno

by Paolo Bartoloni

“Ricordo tutto ma non intendo niente” (“I remember everything but understand nothing”), claims the leading character of Italo Svevo’s La coscienza di Zeno (Zeno’s Conscience) as he embarks on writing the autobiography of his life. What about us, the readers; can we make sense of it? La coscienza has been subjected to close and accurate scrutiny and investigation, and yet it continues to astonish its readership. The surprise originates from the impossibility to know and posses its story, characters, and ambiguous language and narrative entirely. Sapere di Scrivere. Svevo e gli ordigni di La coscienza di Zeno interrogates the inherent openness of Svevo’s novel and its remarkable currency. It discusses La coscienza’s metanarrative and self-reflexive thrust, but also its sharp criticism of modernity, and the “scandal” of human technological progress predicated on the exploitation of the world.Paolo Bartoloni is Established Professor of Italian at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He graduated in Italian Literature at the University of Florence, and obtained his PhD in Comparative Literature at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of Sydney. From 2002 to 2008 Bartoloni was the Director of the programme in Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Sydney. Since 2009 Bartoloni is head of Italian at NUI Galway. He has published extensively on continental theory and philosophy, especially the works of Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Gianni Vattimo, and Mario Perniola, and their impact on the reception of authors such as Blanchot, Calvino, Caproni, and Svevo.With the participation of Giuseppe Stellardi, Associate Professor of Italian, Fellow & Tutor in Italian, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford.

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