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As a Man Grows Older

novel by Svevo

Also known as: “Senilità”

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In Italo Svevo
…was its successor, Senilità (1898; As a Man Grows Older), featuring another bewildered hero. Svevo had been teaching at a commercial school, and, with Senilità’s failure, he formally gave up writing and became engrossed in his father-in-law’s business.
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