Very unusually, I am giving up on this book as of page 76. I found a copy in a library sale and bought it based entirely on the pretty cover. (I think there is an aphorism that applies here.) The novel centres on a clerk named Alphonso. The problem is, his life is not very interesting. His job in...
Cuando me enteré de que 'La historia del buen viejo y la bella muchacha' de Svevo sólo tenía 100 páginas me sentí inevitablemente decepcionada, uno de los pocos libros de Svevo que me quedaban para leer y el único que tenía a mano y resultaba que era ridículamente corto y con una letrota gigante ...
The old man’s business affairs always came to the same end, and Gustavo was without a job for the second time. As poverty increased so did ill-humour, and Alfonso, who was now spending more time at the Mallers than with the Lanuccis, suffered particularly in their company because he was unused to...
