Conscience, fausse conscience et stratégies narratives chez Italo Svevo

Abstract

Italo Svevo, double narration, moral introspection, conscience, false conscience. The Italian writer Italo Svevo of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century is a forward thinker, an innovator in the field of introspection literature. The narrative development of his writings: La vie (1892) (Life), Sénilité (1898) (Senility), La Conscience de Zéno (1923) (Zeno's conscience) grasps the capricious game of the characters' conscience. The character's view of reality, which often deforms it by dissimulating what is difficult to reveal, is accompanied by that of the narrator who incisively intervenes to correct, judge, clarify what is false in the self construct of these Narcissuses called Alfonso Nitti (La vie), Emilio Brentani (Sénilité), or Zéno Cosini (La Conscience de Zéno).