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Svevo's entire work, from its first rather sketchy emergence in Una Vita to its full- fledged materialization in La coscienza di Zeno, a development that may be sum- marized as man's constant search for symbiosis with the other.Perhaps Minghelli ought to have elaborated more on the sharp irony inherent in Zeno's fate, as he eventually chooses to step outside the shadow of the other at the end of a novel that seemingly stages the fable of man and the Mammoth in each of its eight chap- ters.It is nevertheless Minghelli's merit to have intuitively perceived the rich potential buried within Svevo's fable and to have extended its significance beyond a supposedly limited usage.While the book makes a contribution to Svevo Studies, and, to be sure, will stimulate further debates within the Svevian community, its internal configuration is rather uneven.After a first part convincingly articulated, in which fruitful sug- gestions are played out with rigour and eloquence, the second part appears to be trapped in its own shadow.
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