Alongside colleagues such as Pirandello and D'Annunzio, he introduced Freud's psycho-analytical work at a literary level, securing Italian literature of the early twentieth century a place of honor in the modernist/post-decadent revolution.

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Italo Svevo

Italo Svevo (pseudonym of Aron Hector Schmitz) was an Italian modernist novelist from Trieste, best known for La coscienza di Zeno (1923). Admired and supported by James Joyce and Eugenio Montale, he explored psychology, irony, and the ‘inept’ modern self. He died in 1928 following a car accident.
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