O último cigarro, o primeiro lápis: a vida como rascunho em A consciência de zeno, de Italo Svevo

Abstract

In his masterpiece, Confessions of Zeno, a fictional autobiography of an old man, Italo Svevo sustains a close connection between the idleness of late years and literary possibilities of reinventing the world of practical constrictions, changing retirement into a resistant strategy. A modern deformation novel is at stake here, a book in which writing proves capable of providing movement, an erotic and ironic, though timid, renovating breath in a stuck reality.