Argo e Seu Dono

by Italo Svevo

Italo Svevo, um dos mais importantes autores italianos do início do século XX, desenvolve neste livro algumas breves e surpreendentes narrativas. Seu estilo assume o tom dos singulares personagens retratados, por vezes ingênuo, outras vezes irônico, sagaz, crítico.
A importância destas pequenas narrativas no conjunto da obra do autor é ressaltada pelo crítico Elvio Guagnini, professor da Universidade de Trieste: "O trabalho de Svevo autor de contos nos testemunha pelo menos dois fatos: antes de mais nada uma continuidade no trabalho do escritor ao longo de toda a sua vida; em segundo lugar, uma experimentação de modalidades diferentes do conto breve".

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 2012

About the author

Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.

Reviews

[Anneke Zegers · Rating 4 out of 5]

An enjoyable read. Honestly, Argo’s story tugs at the heartstrings, as any good dog story always does, while offering something much more. His thoughts on the world and his ways of understanding (or misunderstanding) the interior lives of humans and other animals raise provocative questions.

I would rate this story higher, but I have no idea what to make of the ending. It is very anticlimactic and does not fit the narrative arc.

[Um mar de fogueirinhas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gostoso de ler, traz contos ótimos como A mãe, A tribo e Argo.

[Jakob Brønnum · Rating 4 out of 5]

Impressive short fiction narrated by a dog and with the dogs capacity and way of sensing itself and its surroundings