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A Perfect Hoax

Italo Svevo


  • Alma Books - Alma Classics
  • 101-page classics
Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of self-delusion, spurred on by Gaia's succession of ruses.

ISBN 9781847497758 | E | PB
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Publisher Alma Books - Alma Classics
ISBN 9781847497758
Publication date November 2018
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 210 x 150 mm
Pages 101
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition 101-page classics
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Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of self-delusion, spurred on by Gaia's succession of ruses. In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo - who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age - parodies elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological portrait of a person who has lost touch with reality.

A Perfect Hoax

A Perfect Hoax

€7.95