Notes and Misconceptions
This is not a novel about quitting smoking. Every last cigarette renews the fantasy of becoming better later.
The psychoanalysis frame does not clarify Zeno. It gives him better tools for evasion.
Best Path
Modernism, psychoanalysis, unreliable narration
Reading Paths
Unreliable Selves
Narrators and protagonists who turn memory, faith, desire, illness, and charm into evasive machinery.
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italianmodernismpsychoanalysisunreliable-narratorcomedyself-deceptionmedium