Two Plays (English Edition)

"My husband exists only insofar as he bores me." --from Italo Svevo's one-act farce _An Unpublished Play."

Also included is the lively monologue _Before the Ball_.

"Reading Svevo," says Peruvian Julio Ramón Ribeyro in his diary, "I have had the impression of reading my own work, not what I’m writing now, but what I would have written if I had been born in Trieste seventy years ago."