Lettere di Livia Veneziani a Valery Larbaud, mediatore intellettuale nella fortuna postuma di Italo Svevo

• Autores: Maria Chiara Morighi
• Localización: Studi francesi, ISSN 0039-2944, Nº. 177, 2015, págs. 510-514
• Idioma: italiano
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  • This article is a commentary on three unpublished letters from the “Valery Larbaud” Multimedia Library of Vichy. The letters, reported here in their entirety, were written to Valery Larbaud by Livia Veneziani, Italo Svevo’s widow. In these letters, Mrs. Veneziani asks the French scholar to convince James Joyce to write a preface in English for a new edition of the novel, Senilità. At the moment of Svevo’s death, Joyce had promised Livia his unconditional support in promoting her husband’s works; but in time, he seemed to have gone back on his word. Thus, Larbaud remains Livia’s only hope in contacting Joyce. Although the friendship between Svevo and Joyce is widely renowned and many studies frequently focus on how it started and grew, little is known about its evolution. It is a fact that Joyce, above all, was responsible for “discovering Svevo” and was one of his most devoted admirers. However, these letters provide a more complete view of their relationship: they prove the existence of some kind of tension between the two writers.