Another Century

Zeno’s Conscience

In the aftermath of World War I, Italo Svevo wrote his masterpiece and finished it exactly 100 years ago.

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When poison gases no longer suffice, an ordinary man, in the secrecy of a room in this world, will invent an incomparable explosive, compared to which the explosives currently in existence will be considered harmless toys. And another man, also ordinary, but a bit sicker than…