Due to his germanophone ancestry by his father, he and his brothers were sent to a boarding school near Würzburg, in the German Empire, where he learnt and became fluent in German. He spoke Italian as a second language, as he usually spoke the Triestine dialect. Svevo was a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of the First World War. Early life īorn in Trieste (at the time in the Austrian Empire, then in Austria-Hungary since 1867) as Aron Ettore Schmitz to a Jewish German father and an Italian mother, Svevo was one of seven children, and grew up enjoying a passion for literature from a young age, reading works of Goethe, Schiller, Shakespeare, and the classics of French and Russian literature.

He was also the cousin of the Italian academic Steno Tedeschi. Ī close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), which became a widely appreciated classic of Italian literature.

Novelist, short story writer, playwright, businessmanĪron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo ( Italian: ), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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