The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl

The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl

Title: The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl
Author: Italo Svevo & L. Collison-Morley
Release: 2010-08-31
Kind: ebook
Genre: Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature
Size: 1995336
...the sin of an old man is equal to about two sins of a young man.

The fable-like story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman is a distillation of Italo Svevo's concerns--attraction of an older man to a younger woman, individual conscience versus social convention, and the cost of sexual desire. This novella is a marvel of psychological insight, following the man's vacillations and tortuous self-justifications to their tragic-comic end. It is presented here in a translation first commissioned and published by Virginia Woolf for her Hogarth Press.

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