Zenos Conscience

Cuando el vanidoso, obsesivo y culpable Zeno Cosini busca ayuda para sus neurosis, su psicoanalista le sugiere que escriba sus memorias como una forma de terapia.

El relato de Zeno es una realidad alternativa, una serie de elípticas episodios que tratan sobre la muerte de su padre, su carrera, su matrimonio y sus amoríos, y, sobre todo, su pasión por fumar y su espectacular fracaso ante la promesa de ese último cigarrillo.

Un himno a sí mismo -engaño y procrastinación, el retrato endiabladamente divertido de Svevo del intento de un hombre por dejar de fumar y encontrarle sentido a su vida se ha convertido en un clásico de culto.

IDIOMA ORIGINAL

When vain, obsessive and guilt-ridden Zeno Cosini seeks help for his neuroses, his psychoanalyst suggests he writes his memoirs as a form of therapy.

Zeno's account is an alternative reality, a series of elliptical episodes dealing with the death of his father, his career, his marriage and affairs, and, above all, his passion for smoking and his spectacular failure to resist the promise of that last cigarette.

A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination, Svevo's devilishly funny portrayal of a man's attempt to give up smoking and make sense of his life has become a cult classic.