The Murder on Via Belpoggio
By Italo Svevo
- Release Date: 2011-10-08
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
"Everyone felt his own beloved person threatened," notes the narrator of Svevo's sarcastic tale of a bungling murderer--an underemployed porter known derisively as "il signore" by his equally down-at-heel friends--on the loose in the city of Trieste.
"L'assassinio di via Belpoggio" was first published in installments in 1890 and was Svevo's first major story.
Genre: short story
Words: 9,014
Date of English translation: 2011
