Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Italo Svevo
Born: December 19, 1861
Died: September 13, 1928 (aged 66)
Bio: Aron Ettore Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer and businessman, known as a novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
Known for:
- Zeno's Conscience (1923)
- Senilità (1898)
- Una Vita (1893)
- As a Man Grows Older
- The nice old man and the pretty girl