(note, I listened to a sample of ‘Zeno’s Conscience’… I liked what I sampled).Įlena goes on to interpret the writing of the excerpt.Įlena tells us that things became complicated when she wrote. She includes an excerpt from the book - and was convinced the protagonist in Svevo’s novel, Zeno Cosini, had problems just like she did only he knew more about them. , showing us that the Svevo starts the story at the very moment when he is preparing to carry out his task. She has us look at the Italian writer, Italo Svevo, (who had impressed her since she was a young girl), from his book: ‘Zeno’s Conscience’,
I was punished so often that the sense of the boundary became part of me, and when I write by hand I feel the threat of the vertical red line even though I haven’t used paper like that for years”.
“But I was easily distracted when I wrote, and while I almost always respected the margin on the left, I often ended up outside the one on the right, whether to finish the word or because I had reached a point where it was difficult to divide the word into syllables and start a new line without going outside the margin. ….”On The Pleasures of Reading and Writing”….is only 74 pages long.Įlena tells us that she was often distracted when she wrote.
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