The masterpiece of Italian modernism in a new translation by Effi Kalifatidi. Zeno Cosini, trying to quit smoking, begins psychoanalysis.

His doctor urges him to write his autobiography, in which the patient analyzes, with relentless self-deprecating humor, his addiction to smoking, his relationship with his father, his wife and his mistress, as well as his commercial activities in multicultural Trieste, just before the outbreak of World War I.

The afterword by James Wood, one of the most important contemporary American critics, sketches the personality of Svevo, connects his work to the great tradition of European modernism, and explores the philosophical debts of Zeno's Conscience.