Classics Book Club: Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo

We generally meet on the 4th Monday of each month, and read literary classics. Twice a year we cover a longer work over multiple meetings.
About this Event

Book: Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo

Parking spots #6 & #41-44 in the parking lot are for bookstore customers.

If you order the book through our storefront on BookShop.org, show us your receipt, and you'll get 10% of that purchase back in store credit to spend at TCB! (But no pressure - libraries are also time-honored partners to book clubs. We love our libraries!)

ABOUT THE BOOK: Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist. Here are Zeno’s interminable attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the beautiful yet unresponsive Ada, his unexpected–and unexpectedly happy–marriage to Ada’s homely sister Augusta, and his affair with a shrill-voiced aspiring singer. Relating these misadventures with wry wit and a perspicacity at once unblinking and compassionate, Zeno’s Conscience is a miracle of psychological realism.