Confessions of Zeno
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1964.
On his psychiatrist’s request, Zeno Cosini, a businessman from Trieste, describes six episodes in his life, self-analysing his actions, feelings and motives ostensibly dead honest. Zeno is a champion of good intentions and crooked reasoning. All his plans fail miserably: he doesn’t manage to stop smoking, when choosing among four sisters he marries just the one he doesn't want to marry, he loses his mistress by complicated lies, drives his business partner to despair, turns out to follow the wrong funeral procession... Zeno is an antihero, a schlemiel, an eccentric hypochondriac, but with his sublime self-mockery he condones his mistakes and weaknesses so disarmingly that one catches oneself on almost every page, with a lenient smile.
Condition grading: Good. Crease to front cover corner. Light foxing to both covers. Some creasing to spine. Two creases to rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1964.
On his psychiatrist’s request, Zeno Cosini, a businessman from Trieste, describes six episodes in his life, self-analysing his actions, feelings and motives ostensibly dead honest. Zeno is a champion of good intentions and crooked reasoning. All his plans fail miserably: he doesn’t manage to stop smoking, when choosing among four sisters he marries just the one he doesn't want to marry, he loses his mistress by complicated lies, drives his business partner to despair, turns out to follow the wrong funeral procession... Zeno is an antihero, a schlemiel, an eccentric hypochondriac, but with his sublime self-mockery he condones his mistakes and weaknesses so disarmingly that one catches oneself on almost every page, with a lenient smile.
Condition grading: Good. Crease to front cover corner. Light foxing to both covers. Some creasing to spine. Two creases to rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1964.
On his psychiatrist’s request, Zeno Cosini, a businessman from Trieste, describes six episodes in his life, self-analysing his actions, feelings and motives ostensibly dead honest. Zeno is a champion of good intentions and crooked reasoning. All his plans fail miserably: he doesn’t manage to stop smoking, when choosing among four sisters he marries just the one he doesn't want to marry, he loses his mistress by complicated lies, drives his business partner to despair, turns out to follow the wrong funeral procession... Zeno is an antihero, a schlemiel, an eccentric hypochondriac, but with his sublime self-mockery he condones his mistakes and weaknesses so disarmingly that one catches oneself on almost every page, with a lenient smile.
Condition grading: Good. Crease to front cover corner. Light foxing to both covers. Some creasing to spine. Two creases to rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
